GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 590, which has core clock speeds of 1469 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		95 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (84%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 590 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 204544 (355%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 is a lot (approximately 917%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 190736 (917%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 is a lot (approximately 352%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 36608 (352%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high 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 of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at 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 chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends 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.