GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB is 167% quicker than the Radeon R5 M330 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 24000 (167%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB will be quite a bit (about 28%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5800 (28%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R5 M330 is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, by far. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.