GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs Radeon HD 6750

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6750, which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 725 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 720 SPUs along with 36 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6750		86 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		170 Watts
	Difference: 84 Watts (98%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6750 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6750		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 64256 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti will be much (about 102%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6750. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6750		26100 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26508 (102%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6750		11600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14704 (127%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of 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 rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.