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GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB has a core clock frequency 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 is comprised of 64 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 360, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 768 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		95 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (5%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 360 should in theory be quite a bit better than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 46400 (81%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 will be a lot (about 142%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29600 (142%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6400 (62%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model	GeForce 9600 GT 1GB	Radeon R7 360
Manufacturer	nVidia	AMD
Year	Feb 2008	June 2015
Code Name	G94a/b	Tobago
Memory	1024 MB	2048 MB
Core Speed	650 MHz	1050 MHz
Memory Speed	1800 MHz	6500 MHz
Power (Max TDP)	95 watts	100 watts
Bandwidth	57600 MB/sec	104000 MB/sec
Texel Rate	20800 Mtexels/sec	50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	10400 Mpixels/sec	16800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	64	768
Texture Mapping Units	32	48
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	2080 million
Bus	PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.0	OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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