Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB vs Radeon HD 6750

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6750, which features clock speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 720 SPUs as well as 36 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB		31 Watts
Radeon HD 6750		86 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (177%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6750, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		64000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 35200 (122%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6750 will be a lot (about 335%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		26100 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB		6000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20100 (335%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6750 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		11600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB		3000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8600 (287%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.