GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs Radeon HD 5770

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5770, which comes with GPU core speed of 850 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1200 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		84 Watts
Radeon HD 5770		108 Watts
	Difference: 24 Watts (29%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 5770 should theoretically be much better than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770		76800 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 38400 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5770 is a lot (more or less 29%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770		34000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7600 (29%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5770 is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770		13600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7000 (106%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.