GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1650 MHz on this card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		84 Watts
Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
	Difference: 36 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 470 4GB will be 450% quicker than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 172800 (450%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 4GB will be much (more or less 349%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 92128 (349%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 4GB is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 1.5GB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 23032 (349%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.