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GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB vs Radeon HD 4670 512MB

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB features clock speeds of 550 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 1536 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 96 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 12 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4670 512MB, which features GPU core speed of 750 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR4/GDDR3/DDR3/DDR2 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 320(64x5) SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4670 512MB 70 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 84 Watts
Difference: 14 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 4670 512MB in general. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 38400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4670 512MB 32000 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (20%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB should be just a bit (about 10%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 4670 512MB. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4670 512MB 24000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2400 (10%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB will be a bit (more or less 10%) more effective at AA than the Radeon HD 4670 512MB, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB 6600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4670 512MB 6000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 600 (10%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB Radeon HD 4670 512MB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2008 Sep 10, 2008
Code Name G92 RV730 XT
Memory 1536 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 70 watts
Bandwidth 38400 MB/sec 32000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 24000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 6000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 320(64x5)
Texture Mapping Units 48 32
Render Output Units 12 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR4/GDDR3/DDR3/DDR2
Bus Width 192-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 55 nm
Transistors 754 million 514 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.0 x16, AGP 8x
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 moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB

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Radeon HD 4670 512MB

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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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