GeForce GTS 250 1GB vs Radeon HD 6750

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6750, which comes with clock speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 720 SPUs along with 36 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6750		86 Watts
GeForce GTS 250 1GB		145 Watts
	Difference: 59 Watts (69%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTS 250 1GB should in theory be a small bit better than the Radeon HD 6750 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB		70400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6750		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 6400 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB should be quite a bit (approximately 81%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 6750. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB		47232 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6750		26100 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21132 (81%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB is a small bit (more or less 2%) better at AA than the Radeon HD 6750, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB		11808 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6750		11600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 208 (2%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.