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GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GT 1GB features a GPU clock speed of 650 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory runs at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 64 Stream Processors, 32 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which features GPU core speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 2304 SPUs, 144 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 95 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT 160 Watts
Difference: 65 Watts (68%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should in theory be much better than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 344064 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 286464 (497%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 852%) more effective at AF than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 20800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 177200 (852%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT 88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 10400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 77600 (746%)

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

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GeForce 9600 GT 1GB

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9600 GT 1GB Radeon RX 5600 XT
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Feb 2008 January 2020
Code Name G94a/b Navi 10 XLE
Memory 1024 MB 6144 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 3000 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 95 watts 160 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 344064 MB/sec
Texel Rate 20800 Mtexels/sec 198000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 88000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 64 2304
Texture Mapping Units 32 144
Render Output Units 16 64
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 7 nm
Transistors 505 million 10300 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated 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 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 card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GT 1GB

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Radeon RX 5600 XT

Amazon.com

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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