GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 570, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		50 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 570 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		25600 MB/sec
	Difference: 203776 (796%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 should be much (more or less 1599%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 140704 (1599%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 570 is superior to the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32976 (749%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.