GeForce GTX 750 vs Radeon HD 5750 512MB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 5750 512MB, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 700 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1150 MHz on this card. It features 720(144x5) SPUs as well as 36 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 750		55 Watts
Radeon HD 5750 512MB		86 Watts
	Difference: 31 Watts (56%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 750 should in theory be a bit superior to the Radeon HD 5750 512MB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 750		80000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5750 512MB		73600 MB/sec
	Difference: 6400 (9%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 750 will be a lot (about 30%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5750 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 750		32640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5750 512MB		25200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7440 (30%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 750 will be a lot (about 46%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon HD 5750 512MB, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 750		16320 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5750 512MB		11200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5120 (46%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated 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 video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.