GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1855 MHz, and 24576 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 2500 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is comprised of 6144 Stream Processors, 384 TAUs, and 192 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		84 Watts
Radeon RX 7900 XTX		355 Watts
	Difference: 271 Watts (323%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		983040 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 944640 (2460%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX is much (about 2598%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		712320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 685920 (2598%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		356160 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 768MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 349560 (5296%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.