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GeForce 9800 GTX vs Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)

Intro

The GeForce 9800 GTX features a GPU core clock speed of 675 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory runs at 1100 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 128 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM), which comes with GPU core speed of 800 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 480 Stream Processors, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 63 Watts
GeForce 9800 GTX 140 Watts
Difference: 77 Watts (122%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce 9800 GTX should be 10% faster than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GTX 70400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 64000 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GTX should be a lot (more or less 125%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce 9800 GTX 43200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 19200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 24000 (125%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GTX should be quite a bit (approximately 69%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM), and will be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GTX 10800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 6400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4400 (69%)

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 GeForce 9800 GTX Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 2008 February 2011
Code Name G92 Turks
Memory 512 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 675 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 2200 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 140 watts 63 watts
Bandwidth 70400 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 43200 Mtexels/sec 19200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10800 Mpixels/sec 6400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 480
Texture Mapping Units 64 24
Render Output Units 16 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 715 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

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

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GeForce 9800 GTX

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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.

Comments

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