Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) vs Radeon HD 7770

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 7770, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 640 Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, 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 7770		3180 points
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		1120 points
	Difference: 2060 (184%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		63 Watts
Radeon HD 7770		80 Watts
	Difference: 17 Watts (27%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 7770 should theoretically be a little bit superior to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7770		72000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7770 will be quite a bit (more or less 108%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon HD 7770		40000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		19200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20800 (108%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7770 is superior to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM), by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 7770		16000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		6400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9600 (150%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.