GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M265, which has a clock frequency of 725 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 M265 overall. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 25600 (80%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB should be a little bit (about 20%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3400 (20%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB should be quite a bit (about 79%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon R7 M265, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4600 (79%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster 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 are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. 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 rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.