GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5600, which has a core clock frequency of 1375 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It features 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 66 Watts (79%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5600 should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 256512 (668%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be quite a bit (more or less 567%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 149600 (567%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 will be much (about 1233%) better at FSAA than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, and should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 81400 (1233%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one 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 - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.