Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) vs Radeon HD 6770

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6770, which has a clock frequency of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1050 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 800 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon HD 6770		1520 points
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		1120 points
	Difference: 400 (36%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		63 Watts
Radeon HD 6770		108 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 6770 should be just a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		67200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 should be quite a bit (approximately 88%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		36000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		19200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16800 (88%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6770 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		14400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		6400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8000 (125%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.