GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs Radeon R9 M375

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M375, which has core clock speeds of 1015 MHz on the GPU, and 1100 MHz on the 4096 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 M375 should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		35200 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 19200 (120%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 is quite a bit (more or less 54%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		40600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14200 (54%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M375 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		16240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9640 (146%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 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 anti-aliasing, 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 is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.