GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB vs Radeon HD 7790

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 7790, which features GPU clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7790		85 Watts
GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		110 Watts
	Difference: 25 Watts (29%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 7790 should in theory be just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7790		96000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 9600 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB will be a small bit (about 6%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 7790. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		59392 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7790		56000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3392 (6%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7790 will be a little bit (approximately 8%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon HD 7790		16000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB		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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.