GeForce GTX 1650 vs Radeon HD 6970

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6970, which comes with a core clock speed of 880 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1375 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 1536 SPUs, 96 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1650		75 Watts
Radeon HD 6970		250 Watts
	Difference: 175 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 6970 will be 34% faster than the GeForce GTX 1650 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970		176000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1650		131072 MB/sec
	Difference: 44928 (34%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6970 should be a little bit (approximately 2%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1650. (explain)

Radeon HD 6970		84480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1650		83160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1320 (2%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1650 is superior to the Radeon HD 6970, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1650		47520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6970		28160 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19360 (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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.