GeForce GTS 250 512MB vs Radeon HD 6750 1GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6750 1GB, which features GPU clock speed of 725 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 720 SPUs, 36 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

(No game benchmarks for this combination yet.)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6750 1GB		86 Watts
GeForce GTS 250 512MB		145 Watts
	Difference: 59 Watts (69%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTS 250 512MB should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 6750 1GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 512MB		70400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6750 1GB		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 6400 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 512MB will be quite a bit (more or less 81%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6750 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 512MB		47232 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6750 1GB		26100 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21132 (81%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 512MB will be a little bit (more or less 2%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 6750 1GB, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 512MB		11808 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6750 1GB		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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.