GeForce GTX 750 Ti vs Radeon HD 7850

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7850, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 860 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1200 MHz on this specific model. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 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

Radeon HD 7850		5200 points
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		4562 points
	Difference: 638 (14%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7850		171 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		72 Sol/s
	Difference: 99 (138%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 750 Ti		60 Watts
Radeon HD 7850		130 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (117%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 7850 should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7850		153600 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 67200 (78%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7850 should be quite a bit (more or less 35%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti. (explain)

Radeon HD 7850		55040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		40800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14240 (35%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7850 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 7850		27520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		16320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11200 (69%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.