Compare any two graphics cards:
GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 vs Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB
IntroThe GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 makes use of a 80 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 540 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM is set to run at a speed of 700 MHz on this particular card. It features 32 SPUs along with 16 TAUs and 8 ROPs.Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB, which comes with clock speeds of 750 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 160 SPUs as well as 8 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthThe Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 in general. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 will be quite a bit (more or less 44%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)
Pixel RateIf using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GDDR3 is superior to the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB, by far. (explain)
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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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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, HDR and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 max fill rate.
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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.
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