GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon HD 6970

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6970, which features core clock speeds of 880 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 96 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1650		75 Watts
Radeon HD 6970		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6970 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1650 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970		176000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1650		131072 MB/sec
	Difference: 44928 (34%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6970 is a bit (about 2%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1650. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970		84480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1650		83160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1320 (2%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1650 will be much (approximately 69%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon HD 6970, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		47520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6970		28160 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19360 (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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.