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GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs Radeon HD 4670 1GB

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The GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB features a clock speed of 550 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 800 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 65 nm design. It is made up of 96 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 12 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 4670 1GB, which uses a 55 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 750 MHz. The GDDR4/GDDR3/DDR3/DDR2 RAM works at a speed of 1100 MHz on this specific card. It features 320(64x5) SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4670 1GB 70 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 84 Watts
Difference: 14 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4670 1GB in general. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 38400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4670 1GB 35200 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (9%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB is a bit (about 10%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4670 1GB. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4670 1GB 24000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2400 (10%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB is superior to the Radeon HD 4670 1GB, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 6600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4670 1GB 6000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 600 (10%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB Radeon HD 4670 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2008 Sep 10, 2008
Code Name G92 RV730 XT
Memory 384 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 2200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 70 watts
Bandwidth 38400 MB/sec 35200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 24000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 6000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 320(64x5)
Texture Mapping Units 48 32
Render Output Units 12 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR4/GDDR3/DDR3/DDR2
Bus Width 192-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 55 nm
Transistors 754 million 514 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.0 x16, AGP 8x
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB

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Radeon HD 4670 1GB

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