GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs Radeon HD 6750

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6750, which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 725 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this specific model. It features 720 SPUs as well as 36 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		84 Watts
Radeon HD 6750		86 Watts
	Difference: 2 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6750 should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		64000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 25600 (67%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB should be a little bit (about 1%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 6750. (explain)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		26400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6750		26100 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 300 (1%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6750 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		11600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		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.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour 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 fill rate also depends on lots of 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.