GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs Radeon HD 6770 1GB

Intro

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

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB		108 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		135 Watts
	Difference: 27 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB should in theory perform a small bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB		67200 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		62080 MB/sec
	Difference: 5120 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) is a bit (approximately 16%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6770 1GB. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92)		41600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6770 1GB		36000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5600 (16%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing 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 8800 GTS (G92)		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4000 (38%)

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 moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its 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 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 output rate also depends on quite a few 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.