GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs Radeon HD 7770

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 7770, which features core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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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

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		3434 points
Radeon HD 7770		3180 points
	Difference: 254 (8%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7770		80 Watts
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		110 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti should in theory be a bit better than the Radeon HD 7770 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7770		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 14400 (20%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti should be a lot (more or less 48%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 7770. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7770		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19392 (48%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7770 should be a little bit (about 8%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon HD 7770		16000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1152 (8%)

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 max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.