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GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB vs Radeon HD 5670

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB makes use of a 65/55 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 650 MHz. The GDDR3 memory works at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 96 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 5670, which comes with clock speeds of 775 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 400(80x5) SPUs along with 20 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5670 61 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 90 Watts
Difference: 29 Watts (48%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 5670 should be a little bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5670 64000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB is much (more or less 101%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 5670. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 31200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5670 15500 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 15700 (101%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB is superior to the Radeon HD 5670, by far. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 10400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5670 6200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4200 (68%)

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 9600 GSO 512MB Radeon HD 5670
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2008 January 14, 2010
Code Name G94a/b Redwood XT
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 775 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 90 watts 61 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 31200 Mtexels/sec 15500 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 6200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 400(80x5)
Texture Mapping Units 48 20
Render Output Units 16 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 505 million 627 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB

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