GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon HD 6770 1GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6770 1GB, which has clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1050 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 800 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650		64 Watts
Radeon HD 6770 1GB		108 Watts
	Difference: 44 Watts (69%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 650 should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6770 1GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650		80000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6770 1GB		67200 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB should be a small bit (about 6%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 650. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB		36000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		33856 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2144 (6%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 is a small bit (approximately 18%) better at AA than the Radeon HD 6770 1GB, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650		16928 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6770 1GB		14400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2528 (18%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of 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 one second.

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