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GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs Radeon HD 6770 1GB

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 has core clock speeds of 550 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR2 RAM. It features 96 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 12 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6770 1GB, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1050 MHz on this particular card. It features 800 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 84 Watts
Radeon HD 6770 1GB 108 Watts
Difference: 24 Watts (29%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 6770 1GB should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 67200 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 51200 (320%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB is much (approximately 36%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 36000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 9600 (36%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB should be much (more or less 118%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 14400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7800 (118%)

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 ASUS 512 Radeon HD 6770 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2008 January 2011
Code Name G92 Juniper XT
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 1000 MHz 4200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 108 watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 67200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 36000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 14400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 800
Texture Mapping Units 48 40
Render Output Units 12 16
Bus Type DDR2 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 1040 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512

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Radeon HD 6770 1GB

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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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