GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB vs Radeon HD 6750

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB has a GPU clock speed of 650 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM is set to run at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 96 Stream Processors, 48 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6750, which comes with GPU clock speed of 725 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 720 SPUs, 36 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB	Radeon HD 6750
Manufacturer	nVidia	ATi
Year	October 2008	January 2011
Code Name	G94a/b	Juniper Pro
Fab Process	65/55 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe x16
Memory	512 MB	512 MB
Core Speed	650 MHz	725 MHz
Shader Speed	1625 MHz	(N/A) MHz
Memory Speed	900 MHz	1000 MHz
Unified Shaders	96	720
Texture Mapping Units	48	36
Render Output Units	16	16
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Bus Width	256-bit	128-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.0	OpenGL 4.0
Power (Max TDP)	90 watts	86 watts
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
Bandwidth	57600 MB/sec	64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate	31200 Mtexels/sec	26100 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	10400 Mpixels/sec	11600 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number 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 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 the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.