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GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB vs Radeon HD 4650 1GB

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The GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB features clock speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 96 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4650 1GB, which features core speeds of 600 MHz on the GPU, and 700 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 320(64x5) SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4650 1GB 55 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 90 Watts
Difference: 35 Watts (64%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB should perform much faster than the Radeon HD 4650 1GB overall. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4650 1GB 22400 MB/sec
Difference: 35200 (157%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB will be quite a bit (approximately 63%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4650 1GB. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 31200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4650 1GB 19200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12000 (63%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB is superior to the Radeon HD 4650 1GB, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 10400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4650 1GB 4800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5600 (117%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB Radeon HD 4650 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2008 Sep 10, 2008
Code Name G94a/b RV730 PRO
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 600 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 1400 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 90 watts 55 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 22400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 31200 Mtexels/sec 19200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 4800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 320(64x5)
Texture Mapping Units 48 32
Render Output Units 16 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 55 nm
Transistors 505 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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB

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Comments

One Response to “GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB vs Radeon HD 4650 1GB”
zahid says:

i am using nvidia geforce 9600GSO 512.
with a 1Gb of memory
i am using dell gx 620
intel(r) pentium4 3ghz,2gb ddr2 533Mhz ram,with a 305 watt power supply.
i hav played
crysis2,nfs undercover,metro2033,quantum of solance,rage2011,call of duty black oops,blood stone 007,mw3,and many more.i play on medium an low specications.its good to play.

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