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GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB uses a 65 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 550 MHz. The GDDR3 memory works at a speed of 800 MHz on this specific card. It features 96 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 12 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 84 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT 160 Watts
Difference: 76 Watts (90%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should perform much faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 344064 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 38400 MB/sec
Difference: 305664 (796%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be quite a bit (about 650%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 171600 (650%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 81400 (1233%)

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 GSO 1.5GB Radeon RX 5600 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2008 January 2020
Code Name G92 Navi 10 XLE
Memory 1536 MB 6144 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 3000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 160 watts
Bandwidth 38400 MB/sec 344064 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 198000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 88000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 2304
Texture Mapping Units 48 144
Render Output Units 12 64
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR6
Bus Width 192-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 7 nm
Transistors 754 million 10300 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's 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 also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB

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Radeon RX 5600 XT

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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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