GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM), which comes with clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 480 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 460		2557 points
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		1120 points
	Difference: 1437 (128%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		63 Watts
GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
	Difference: 87 Watts (138%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 460 should perform much faster than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 22400 (35%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 should be quite a bit (about 97%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		19200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 18600 (97%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 is superior to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM), by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		6400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9800 (153%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 the graphics card could possibly write 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 core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.