GeForce 9600 GT 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 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 720 Stream Processors, 36 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6750 1GB		86 Watts
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		95 Watts
	Difference: 9 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 6750 1GB should be a bit faster than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750 1GB		64000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 6400 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6750 1GB will be much (more or less 25%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750 1GB		26100 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5300 (25%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6750 1GB will be a little bit (approximately 12%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750 1GB		11600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1200 (12%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 of the card 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 applied in one second.

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