GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5700, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1465 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
Radeon RX 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 96 Watts (114%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 will be 1095% faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 420352 (1095%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 should be much (about 699%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 184560 (699%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 87160 (1321%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one 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 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 amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 ability to reach the max fill rate.