GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which has clock speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 be much 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 will be quite a bit (approximately 2843%) better at AF 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

The Radeon RX Vega 56 will be quite a bit (approximately 1581%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of 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 fill 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 maximum fill rate.