GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 vs Radeon HD 6750

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6750, which has core clock speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM. 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)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		84 Watts
Radeon HD 6750		86 Watts
	Difference: 2 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 6750 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		64000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 48000 (300%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512 should be a small bit (more or less 1%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 6750. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6750		26100 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 300 (1%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6750 will be quite a bit (about 76%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		11600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO ASUS 512		6600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5000 (76%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.