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GeForce 9600 GT 512MB vs Radeon R7 250X 2GB

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GT 512MB makes use of a 65/55 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 650 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a speed of 900 MHz on this specific model. It features 64 SPUs as well as 32 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 250X 2GB, which has core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 250X 2GB should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB 72000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 14400 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X 2GB is a lot (more or less 92%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB 40000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 20800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 19200 (92%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 250X 2GB should be quite a bit (more or less 54%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 250X 2GB 16000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 10400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5600 (54%)

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 GT 512MB Radeon R7 250X 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Feb 2008 February 2014
Code Name G94a/b Cape Verde XT
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 95 watts 95 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 20800 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 64 640
Texture Mapping Units 32 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 505 million 1500 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GT 512MB

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Radeon R7 250X 2GB

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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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