GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 560, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		95 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (19%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 560 should theoretically be a lot faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 57088 (99%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be quite a bit (more or less 262%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 54400 (262%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be quite a bit (approximately 81%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8400 (81%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output 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.