GeForce 9600 GT 512MB vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M365X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 925 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1125 MHz on this particular card. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M365X should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 14400 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X should be quite a bit (about 78%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		37000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16200 (78%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M365X is superior to the GeForce 9600 GT 512MB, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		14800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 512MB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4400 (42%)

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 over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.