Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 6850

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6850, which has a core clock frequency of 775 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 960 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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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

Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
Radeon HD 6850		2395 points
	Difference: 3528 (147%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6850		127 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 43 Watts (34%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 760 should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6850 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6850		128000 MB/sec
	Difference: 64256 (50%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 will be quite a bit (approximately 153%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6850. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6850		37200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56880 (153%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 is a lot (approximately 26%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 6850, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6850		24800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6560 (26%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.