Radeon HD 3850 1GB 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 set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 720 SPUs, 36 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 3850 1GB		75 Watts
Radeon HD 6750 1GB		86 Watts
	Difference: 11 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 6750 1GB should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon HD 3850 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750 1GB		64000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 3850 1GB		52992 MB/sec
	Difference: 11008 (21%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6750 1GB should be much (about 144%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 3850 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750 1GB		26100 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 1GB		10688 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15412 (144%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6750 1GB is a better choice, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750 1GB		11600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 1GB		10688 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 912 (9%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over 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 memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.