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GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)
Intro
The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 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 makes use of a 65/55 nm design. It features 64 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM), which features a GPU core clock speed of 625 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR3 memory set to run at 800 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 160 Stream Processors, 8 TAUs, and 4 ROPs.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) |
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31 Watts |
| GeForce 9600 GT 1GB |
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95 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) in general. (explain)
| GeForce 9600 GT 1GB |
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57600 MB/sec |
| Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) |
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12800 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB is a lot (approximately 316%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM). (explain)| GeForce 9600 GT 1GB |
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20800 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) |
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5000 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)| GeForce 9600 GT 1GB |
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10400 Mpixels/sec |
| Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) |
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2500 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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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.
Specifications
| Model | GeForce 9600 GT 1GB | Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | Feb 2008 | February 2011 |
| Code Name | G94a/b | Caicos |
| Memory | 1024 MB | 512 MB |
| Core Speed | 650 MHz | 625 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 1800 MHz | 1600 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 95 watts | 31 watts |
| Bandwidth | 57600 MB/sec | 12800 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 20800 Mtexels/sec | 5000 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 10400 Mpixels/sec | 2500 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 64 | 160 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 32 | 8 |
| Render Output Units | 16 | 4 |
| Bus Type | GDDR3 | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 64-bit |
| Fab Process | 65/55 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 505 million | 370 million |
| Bus | PCIe x16 2.0 | PCIe 2.1 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 10 | DirectX 11 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 3.0 | OpenGL 4.1 |
Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 processed in a second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.
GeForce 9600 GT 1GBAmazon.com
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Radeon HD 6450 (OEM)Amazon.com
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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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