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GeForce 9600 GT 512MB vs Radeon R5 M255

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GT 512MB features a GPU core clock speed of 650 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM is set to run at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 64 Stream Processors, 32 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M255, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 940 MHz. The DDR3 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 320 SPUs as well as 20 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB should in theory be much superior to the Radeon R5 M255 in general. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M255 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 41600 (260%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GT 512MB is just a bit (approximately 11%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M255. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 20800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M255 18800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2000 (11%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GT 512MB is a lot (about 38%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R5 M255, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 10400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M255 7520 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2880 (38%)

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 R5 M255
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Feb 2008 June 2014
Code Name G94a/b Jet Pro
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 940 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 95 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 16000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 20800 Mtexels/sec 18800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 7520 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 64 320
Texture Mapping Units 32 20
Render Output Units 16 8
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 256-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 505 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x8
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total 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 processed in one second.

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

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GeForce 9600 GT 512MB

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Radeon R5 M255

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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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