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GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB vs Radeon HD 4770

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB comes with a GPU clock speed of 650 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM runs at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 96 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 4770, which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 750 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 800 MHz on this particular model. It features 640(128x5) SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4770 80 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 90 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB should perform a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4770 in general. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4770 51200 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB will be a lot (more or less 30%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4770. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 31200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4770 24000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 7200 (30%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 4770 is a better choice, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon HD 4770 12000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB 10400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1600 (15%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB Radeon HD 4770
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2008 Apr 28, 2009
Code Name G94a/b RV740
Memory 512 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 3200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 90 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 51200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 31200 Mtexels/sec 24000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 12000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 640(128x5)
Texture Mapping Units 48 32
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 505 million 826 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at 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 the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB

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Radeon HD 4770

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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