GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon RX 6650 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6650 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 2055 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 2190 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
Radeon RX 6650 XT		176 Watts
	Difference: 92 Watts (110%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6650 XT will be 648% faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT		287072 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 248672 (648%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6650 XT should be quite a bit (more or less 896%) better at AF than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT		263040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 236640 (896%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6650 XT is superior to the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6650 XT		131520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 124920 (1893%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.