GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		50 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (200%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 is 1052% quicker than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		25600 MB/sec
	Difference: 269312 (1052%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is a lot (more or less 1900%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 167200 (1900%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is quite a bit (approximately 1900%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 83600 (1900%)

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 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 card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output 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.