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GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB has a GPU clock speed of 650 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory runs at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 64 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 560, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560 80 Watts
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 95 Watts
Difference: 15 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 560, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 560 114688 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 57088 (99%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be a lot (approximately 262%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 560 75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 20800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 54400 (262%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 560 is superior to the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 560 18800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 10400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 8400 (81%)

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 GT 1GB Radeon RX 560
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Feb 2008 May 2017
Code Name G94a/b Baffin
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 1175 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 95 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 20800 Mtexels/sec 75200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 18800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 64 1024
Texture Mapping Units 32 64
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 14 nm
Transistors 505 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is 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 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GT 1GB

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Radeon RX 560

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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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