GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon R9 M375X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M375X, which features a clock frequency of 1015 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1125 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M375X should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 14400 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375X will be quite a bit (approximately 95%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		40600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19800 (95%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M375X is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375X		16240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5840 (56%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.