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GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB has core speeds of 550 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 768 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 96 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 12 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with core clock speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 84 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 300 Watts
Difference: 216 Watts (257%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 495452 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 38400 MB/sec
Difference: 457052 (1190%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a lot (about 1240%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 327392 (1240%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be much (more or less 1240%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 81848 (1240%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2008 June 2017
Code Name G92 Vega 10 XTX
Memory 768 MB 16384 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 1382 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 1890 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 300 watts
Bandwidth 38400 MB/sec 495452 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 353792 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 88448 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 4096
Texture Mapping Units 48 256
Render Output Units 12 64
Bus Type GDDR3 HBM2
Bus Width 192-bit 2048-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 14 nm
Transistors 754 million 12500 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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