GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 14000 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is comprised of 2304 SPUs, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		95 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (68%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 286464 (497%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is much (approximately 852%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 177200 (852%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be a lot (approximately 746%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 77600 (746%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated 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 graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). 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 reach the maximum fill rate.