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GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 comes with core clock speeds of 550 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR2 RAM. It features 96 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 12 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon R5 M330, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1030 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 900 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 320 Stream Processors, 20 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon R5 M330 overall. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 16000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330 14400 MB/sec
Difference: 1600 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 will be a lot (more or less 28%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330 20600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 5800 (28%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R5 M330 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330 8240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1640 (25%)

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 GSO ASUS 512 Radeon R5 M330
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2008 2015
Code Name G92 Oland
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 1030 MHz
Memory Speed 1000 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 16000 MB/sec 14400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 20600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 8240 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 320
Texture Mapping Units 48 20
Render Output Units 12 8
Bus Type DDR2 DDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512

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