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GeForce GTS 250 1GB vs Radeon HD 6770 1GB

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The GeForce GTS 250 1GB has core clock speeds of 738 MHz on the GPU, and 1100 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 128 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6770 1GB, which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1050 MHz on this specific card. It features 800 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 108 Watts
GeForce GTS 250 1GB 145 Watts
Difference: 37 Watts (34%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB should in theory be just a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6770 1GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB 70400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6770 1GB 67200 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (5%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB will be much (more or less 31%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 6770 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB 47232 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6770 1GB 36000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 11232 (31%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6770 1GB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 14400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 250 1GB 11808 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2592 (22%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTS 250 1GB Radeon HD 6770 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 3, 2009 January 2011
Code Name G92a/b Juniper XT
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 738 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 2200 MHz 4200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 145 watts 108 watts
Bandwidth 70400 MB/sec 67200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 47232 Mtexels/sec 36000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 11808 Mpixels/sec 14400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 800
Texture Mapping Units 64 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 1040 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

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

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GeForce GTS 250 1GB

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Comments

One Response to “GeForce GTS 250 1GB vs Radeon HD 6770 1GB”
cristian says:

this comparison is false, because the HD 6770 has a bandwidth greater than the old GTS 250, the HD 6670 is not 67.200mb/sec, has 76.8 Gb / s, and the GTS 250 loses to the HD 6770, the GTS 250 more could be compared to the HD 6750 or less

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