GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon HD 6950

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6950, which comes with a core clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1250 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1650		75 Watts
Radeon HD 6950		200 Watts
	Difference: 125 Watts (167%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6950 should in theory be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1650 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950		160000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1650		131072 MB/sec
	Difference: 28928 (22%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1650 should be a little bit (about 18%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6950. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		83160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6950		70400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12760 (18%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1650 is superior to the Radeon HD 6950, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		47520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6950		25600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21920 (86%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 can be applied in one second. This figure 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 card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.