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Radeon HD 6750 vs Radeon HD 6850

Intro

The Radeon HD 6750 features a clock speed of 725 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 720 SPUs, 36 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6850, which comes with clock speeds of 775 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 960 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6750 86 Watts
Radeon HD 6850 127 Watts
Difference: 41 Watts (48%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 6850 should be a lot faster than the Radeon HD 6750 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 128000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6750 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 64000 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6850 is quite a bit (approximately 43%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6750. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 37200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6750 26100 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 11100 (43%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6850 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 24800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6750 11600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 13200 (114%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 6750 Radeon HD 6850
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year January 2011 October 2010
Code Name Juniper Pro Barts Pro
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 725 MHz 775 MHz
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 86 watts 127 watts
Bandwidth 64000 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26100 Mtexels/sec 37200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 11600 Mpixels/sec 24800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 720 960
Texture Mapping Units 36 48
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1040 million 1700 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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