GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with a clock frequency of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1890 MHz. It also features a 2048-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It features 4096 SPUs, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		95 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 205 Watts (216%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be 760% faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 437852 (760%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be quite a bit (more or less 1601%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 332992 (1601%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is much (more or less 750%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 78048 (750%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of 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 chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.