GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 470, which comes with core clock speeds of 926 MHz on the GPU, and 1650 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		90 Watts
Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 470 will be 267% faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 153600 (267%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is much (about 280%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 87328 (280%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 470 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 512MB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19232 (185%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.