GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 570, which comes with GPU core speed of 1168 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		95 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (58%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 570 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 171776 (298%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is much (about 619%) better at AF than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 128704 (619%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is quite a bit (more or less 259%) better at AA than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, and will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26976 (259%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write 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 sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.