GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M330, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1030 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a speed of 900 MHz on this particular model. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB should be much faster than the Radeon R5 M330 overall. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		38400 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 24000 (167%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB is quite a bit (more or less 28%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5800 (28%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R5 M330 will be quite a bit (more or less 25%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must 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 AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.