GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which has a core clock frequency of 1090 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It features 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
	Difference: 9 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 460 2GB will be 192% quicker than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 73600 (192%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB will be much (more or less 131%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 34640 (131%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 2GB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10840 (164%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

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