GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 470, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set 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 along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		50 Watts
Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (140%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 470 is 725% faster than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		25600 MB/sec
	Difference: 185600 (725%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is much (more or less 1247%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 109728 (1247%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is quite a bit (about 573%) better at FSAA than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3, and able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25232 (573%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.