Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) vs Radeon HD 6770

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6770, which has a GPU core clock speed of 900 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1050 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 800 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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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

Radeon HD 6770		1520 points
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		1120 points
	Difference: 400 (36%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		63 Watts
Radeon HD 6770		108 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6770, in theory, should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		67200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 will be much (approximately 88%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		36000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		19200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16800 (88%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 will be quite a bit (approximately 125%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM), and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		14400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		6400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8000 (125%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.