GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 570, which comes with core clock speeds of 1168 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 66 Watts (79%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 570 should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 190976 (497%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is much (approximately 466%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 123104 (466%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is much (approximately 466%) more effective at AA than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30776 (466%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at 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 write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to 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 ability to reach the max fill rate.