GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5700, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1465 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 TAUs 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, the Radeon RX 5700 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 will be quite a bit (more or less 699%) better at AF 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 high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5700 is a better choice, by a large margin. (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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.