GeForce GTX 750 Ti vs Radeon HD 6870

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6870, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1050 MHz on this specific model. It features 1120 SPUs along with 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 Ti		4562 points
Radeon HD 6870		2870 points
	Difference: 1692 (59%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 750 Ti		60 Watts
Radeon HD 6870		151 Watts
	Difference: 91 Watts (152%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 6870 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870		134400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (56%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6870 is a lot (about 24%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		40800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9600 (24%)

Pixel Rate

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

Radeon HD 6870		28800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.