GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which comes with a clock frequency of 975 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1400 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		84 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
	Difference: 26 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 2G, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 140800 (367%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is quite a bit (approximately 136%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36000 (136%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24600 (373%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.