GeForce 9600 GT 512MB vs Radeon HD 6770

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GT 512MB comes with a core clock speed of 650 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 65/55 nm design. It features 64 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6770, which features clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1050 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 800 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce 9600 GT 512MB	Radeon HD 6770
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	512 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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This 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 graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.