GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5700, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1465 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 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 RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 96 Watts (114%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5700, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 420352 (1095%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 will be a lot (more or less 699%) better at AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 184560 (699%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 will be a lot (about 1321%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 87160 (1321%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.