Radeon HD 5750 1GB vs Radeon HD 6770

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6770, which features core clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1050 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 memory. 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 5750 1GB		86 Watts
Radeon HD 6770		108 Watts
	Difference: 22 Watts (26%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 5750 1GB, in theory, should be a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6770 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5750 1GB		73600 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6770		67200 MB/sec
	Difference: 6400 (10%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 is a lot (approximately 43%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 5750 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		36000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5750 1GB		25200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10800 (43%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 will be a lot (approximately 29%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 5750 1GB, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		14400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5750 1GB		11200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3200 (29%)

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 MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR 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 figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.