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GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 vs Radeon HD 3470 512MB
IntroThe GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 makes use of a 55 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 550 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a speed of 800 MHz on this particular model. It features 32 SPUs as well as 16 TAUs and 8 ROPs.Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 3470 512MB, which features clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 950 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 40(8x5) SPUs as well as 4 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksMemory BandwidthThe Radeon HD 3470 512MB should in theory be just a bit faster than the GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 in general. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 will be a lot (approximately 175%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 3470 512MB. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR3 is superior to the Radeon HD 3470 512MB, and very much so. (explain)
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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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. Specifications
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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.
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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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