GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs Radeon HD 6770

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6770, which has 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 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		108 Watts
	Difference: 24 Watts (29%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6770 should be a lot faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 is a lot (about 36%) better at AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 is a lot (more or less 118%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512, and will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.