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GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 vs Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB

Intro

The GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 comes with a GPU core clock speed of 550 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory is set to run at 800 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 32 SPUs, 16 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 650 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 480 Stream Processors, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB should in theory be a little bit superior to the GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 28800 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 25600 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB will be a lot (about 77%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 15600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 8800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 6800 (77%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB is a bit (approximately 18%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 5200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 4400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 800 (18%)

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

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Model GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2008 February 2011
Code Name G96b Turks
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 50 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 25600 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 8800 Mtexels/sec 15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 4400 Mpixels/sec 5200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 32 480
Texture Mapping Units 16 24
Render Output Units 8 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 314 million 715 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0, PCI PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3

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Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB

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