GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB vs Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM), which comes with a core clock speed of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 480 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		63 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB		143 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) should be just a bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		64000 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB		63360 MB/sec
	Difference: 640 (1%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB is quite a bit (about 28%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB		24624 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		19200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5424 (28%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 640MB		10260 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM)		6400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3860 (60%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.