GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 570, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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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

In theory, the Radeon RX 570 should be 497% faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be quite a bit (approximately 466%) faster with regards to AF 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 will be a lot (about 466%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and also able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 can be processed in one second. This is calculated 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number 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 ROPs 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.