Radeon HD 3650 vs Radeon HD 6750

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6750, which has core speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 720 SPUs as well as 36 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 3650		78 Watts
Radeon HD 6750		86 Watts
	Difference: 8 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6750 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 3650 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		64000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 3650		25600 MB/sec
	Difference: 38400 (150%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6750 will be quite a bit (approximately 350%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 3650. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		26100 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3650		5800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20300 (350%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6750 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		11600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 3650		2900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8700 (300%)

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

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its 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 the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.