Radeon HD 4850 512MB vs Radeon HD 6750

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6750, which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 725 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 720 SPUs along with 36 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6750		86 Watts
Radeon HD 4850 512MB		110 Watts
	Difference: 24 Watts (28%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6750 should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4850 512MB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		64000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4850 512MB		63552 MB/sec
	Difference: 448 (1%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6750 is just a bit (approximately 4%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4850 512MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		26100 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 512MB		25000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1100 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6750 is superior to the Radeon HD 4850 512MB, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		11600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 512MB		10000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1600 (16%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.