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GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon RX 470

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The GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB comes with a GPU core clock speed of 550 MHz, and the 768 MB of GDDR3 RAM runs at 800 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 96 Stream Processors, 48 Texture Address Units, and 12 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 470, which has GPU core speed of 926 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 470 should in theory be much better than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 will be quite a bit (more or less 349%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		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.

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Specifications

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Model	GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB	Radeon RX 470
Manufacturer	nVidia	AMD
Year	May 2008	August 2016
Code Name	G92	Polaris 10
Memory	768 MB	8192 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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably 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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