GeForce GTX 750 vs Radeon HD 6870

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6870, which has core clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1050 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1120 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator 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

GeForce GTX 750		3958 points
Radeon HD 6870		2870 points
	Difference: 1088 (38%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 750		55 Watts
Radeon HD 6870		151 Watts
	Difference: 96 Watts (175%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6870 will be 68% quicker than the GeForce GTX 750 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870		134400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 750		80000 MB/sec
	Difference: 54400 (68%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6870 is quite a bit (approximately 54%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 750. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 750		32640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17760 (54%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6870 is superior to the GeForce GTX 750, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870		28800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 750		16320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12480 (76%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.