GeForce GTS 450 1GB vs Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB, which has GPU core speed of 800 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 480 Stream Processors, 24 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		63 Watts
GeForce GTS 450 1GB		106 Watts
	Difference: 43 Watts (68%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB, in theory, should be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTS 450 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		64000 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 450 1GB		57728 MB/sec
	Difference: 6272 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 450 1GB is quite a bit (approximately 31%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450 1GB		25056 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		19200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5856 (31%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTS 450 1GB will be a lot (about 96%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450 1GB		12528 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		6400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6128 (96%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.