GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1855 MHz, and 24576 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2500 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 6144 SPUs, 384 Texture Address Units, and 192 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		50 Watts
Radeon RX 7900 XTX		355 Watts
	Difference: 305 Watts (610%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX should be a lot faster than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		983040 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		25600 MB/sec
	Difference: 957440 (3740%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX will be a lot (more or less 7995%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		712320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 703520 (7995%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		356160 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT 1GB GDDR3		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 351760 (7995%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record 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 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.