GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1650 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
	Difference: 36 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 470 4GB should be a lot faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 172800 (450%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 4GB should be a lot (about 349%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 92128 (349%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 4GB is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.