GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB vs Radeon HD 5750 1GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5750 1GB, which has GPU core speed of 700 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1150 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 720(144x5) Stream Processors, 36 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5750 1GB		86 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB		143 Watts
	Difference: 57 Watts (66%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 5750 1GB should be 16% quicker than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB in general, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 5750 1GB		73600 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB		63360 MB/sec
	Difference: 10240 (16%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5750 1GB is a little bit (approximately 2%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 5750 1GB		25200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB		24624 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 576 (2%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 5750 1GB will be a bit (about 9%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon HD 5750 1GB		11200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB		10260 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 940 (9%)

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

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.