GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
	Difference: 9 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 460 2GB should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 73600 (192%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB will be much (more or less 131%) better at AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 34640 (131%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should be a lot (about 164%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10840 (164%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and high 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 by the core clock 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. 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 output 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 ability to reach the maximum fill rate.