GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1156 MHz, and 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM set to run at 1600 MHz through a 2048-bit bus. It also is made up of 3584 SPUs, 224 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		50 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (320%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		25600 MB/sec
	Difference: 393830 (1538%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is much (more or less 2843%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 250144 (2843%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 69584 (1581%)

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 moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.