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GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB comes with core clock speeds of 550 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 768 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 96 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 12 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which features a core clock frequency of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1650 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It features 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 84 Watts
Radeon RX 470 4GB 120 Watts
Difference: 36 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 470 4GB is 450% faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB 211200 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 38400 MB/sec
Difference: 172800 (450%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 4GB is much (more or less 349%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB 118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 92128 (349%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 4GB is much (about 349%) better at FSAA than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB 29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 23032 (349%)

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 768MB Radeon RX 470 4GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2008 August 2016
Code Name G92 Polaris 10
Memory 768 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 926 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 6600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 120 watts
Bandwidth 38400 MB/sec 211200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 118528 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 29632 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 2048
Texture Mapping Units 48 128
Render Output Units 12 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 14 nm
Transistors 754 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB

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Radeon RX 470 4GB

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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