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GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon HD 6950 2GB
Intro
The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB has a core clock speed of 650 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 65/55 nm design. It features 64 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6950 2GB, which has clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| GeForce 9600 GT 1GB |
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95 Watts |
| Radeon HD 6950 2GB |
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200 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 6950 2GB should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB in general. (explain)
| Radeon HD 6950 2GB |
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160000 MB/sec |
| GeForce 9600 GT 1GB |
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57600 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon HD 6950 2GB should be a lot (approximately 238%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)| Radeon HD 6950 2GB |
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70400 Mtexels/sec |
| GeForce 9600 GT 1GB |
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20800 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6950 2GB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)| Radeon HD 6950 2GB |
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25600 Mpixels/sec |
| GeForce 9600 GT 1GB |
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10400 Mpixels/sec |
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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
| Model | GeForce 9600 GT 1GB | Radeon HD 6950 2GB |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | Feb 2008 | December 2010 |
| Code Name | G94a/b | Cayman Pro |
| Memory | 1024 MB | 2048 MB |
| Core Speed | 650 MHz | 800 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 1800 MHz | 5000 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 95 watts | 200 watts |
| Bandwidth | 57600 MB/sec | 160000 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 20800 Mtexels/sec | 70400 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 10400 Mpixels/sec | 25600 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 64 | 1408 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 32 | 88 |
| Render Output Units | 16 | 32 |
| Bus Type | GDDR3 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Fab Process | 65/55 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 505 million | 2640 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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, 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 figure is worked out by multiplying the total 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 in a second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.
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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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