GeForce 9600 GT 512MB vs Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition, which features clock speeds of 1680 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2560 SPUs along with 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		95 Watts
Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		235 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (147%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition should be 696% faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		458752 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 401152 (696%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition is much (approximately 1192%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 248000 (1192%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition should be quite a bit (more or less 934%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB, and also able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition		107520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 97120 (934%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.