GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M265, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 725 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB, in theory, should perform a bit faster than the Radeon R7 M265 in general. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		38400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 6400 (20%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB will be quite a bit (about 52%) better at AF than the Radeon R7 M265. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9000 (52%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB is superior to the Radeon R7 M265, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		6600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 800 (14%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high 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 texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

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