GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 RAM works at a speed of 1600 MHz on this specific model. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 126 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 381030 (992%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 will be quite a bit (approximately 881%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 232544 (881%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67384 (1021%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out 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 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 can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's 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 output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.