GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon HD 6970

Intro

Compare all of 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 RAM. 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

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 6970 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1650 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6970 is just a bit (more or less 2%) more effective at 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 is much (about 69%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 6970, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.