GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1382 MHz. The HBM2 memory works at a speed of 1890 MHz on this particular card. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3		50 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 250 Watts (500%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should theoretically be much better than the GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 in general. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3		25600 MB/sec
	Difference: 469852 (1835%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be quite a bit (approximately 3920%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 344992 (3920%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be much (more or less 1910%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 84048 (1910%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.