GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB vs Radeon HD 6750 1GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6750 1GB, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 725 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 720 SPUs along with 36 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		84 Watts
Radeon HD 6750 1GB		86 Watts
	Difference: 2 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6750 1GB is 67% faster than the GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750 1GB		64000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB		38400 MB/sec
	Difference: 25600 (67%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB will be just a bit (approximately 1%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6750 1GB. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6750 1GB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750 1GB		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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.