GeForce 9600 GT 512MB vs Radeon HD 6770 1GB

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GT 512MB has core clock speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 64 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6770 1GB, which features clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1050 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 800 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce 9600 GT 512MB	Radeon HD 6770 1GB
Manufacturer	nVidia	ATi
Year	Feb 2008	January 2011
Code Name	G94a/b	Juniper XT
Fab Process	65/55 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe x16
Memory	512 MB	1024 MB
Core Speed	650 MHz	900 MHz
Shader Speed	1625 MHz	(N/A) MHz
Memory Speed	900 MHz	1050 MHz
Unified Shaders	64	800
Texture Mapping Units	32	40
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 4.1
Power (Max TDP)	95 watts	108 watts
Shader Model	4.0	5.0
Bandwidth	57600 MB/sec	67200 MB/sec
Texel Rate	20800 Mtexels/sec	36000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	10400 Mpixels/sec	14400 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.