Geforce GTX 760 vs Radeon HD 6850

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6850, which comes with a core clock speed of 775 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 960 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 32 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

Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
Radeon HD 6850		2395 points
	Difference: 3528 (147%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6850		127 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 43 Watts (34%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Geforce GTX 760 should perform much faster than the Radeon HD 6850 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6850		128000 MB/sec
	Difference: 64256 (50%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 should be much (about 153%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6850. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6850		37200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56880 (153%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 760 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6850		24800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6560 (26%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a 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 - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.