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GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs Radeon HD 6850

Intro

The GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB comes with a GPU core speed of 550 MHz, and the 384 MB of GDDR3 memory runs at 800 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 96 Stream Processors, 48 Texture Address Units, and 12 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6850, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 775 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 960 Stream Processors, 48 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 84 Watts
Radeon HD 6850 127 Watts
Difference: 43 Watts (51%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6850 should be much faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 128000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 38400 MB/sec
Difference: 89600 (233%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6850 should be quite a bit (more or less 41%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 37200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 26400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 10800 (41%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6850 should be much (more or less 276%) better at AA than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 24800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB 6600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 18200 (276%)

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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Specifications

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Model GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB Radeon HD 6850
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2008 October 2010
Code Name G92 Barts Pro
Memory 384 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 550 MHz 775 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 84 watts 127 watts
Bandwidth 38400 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26400 Mtexels/sec 37200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 6600 Mpixels/sec 24800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 960
Texture Mapping Units 48 48
Render Output Units 12 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 1700 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB

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Radeon HD 6850

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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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