GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 570, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1168 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 Stream Processors, 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 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 66 Watts (79%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 570, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 190976 (497%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be much (approximately 466%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 123104 (466%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is a lot (about 466%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30776 (466%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 that the graphics chip can possibly write 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 core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.