GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1382 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 memory running at 1890 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also features 4096 Stream Processors, 256 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3		50 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 250 Watts (500%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3		25600 MB/sec
	Difference: 469852 (1835%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be quite a bit (about 3920%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 344992 (3920%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be a lot (approximately 1910%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 84048 (1910%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.