GeForce GTS 250 1GB vs Radeon HD 6750

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6750, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 725 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 720 SPUs, 36 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6750		86 Watts
GeForce GTS 250 1GB		145 Watts
	Difference: 59 Watts (69%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTS 250 1GB should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6750 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB		70400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6750		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 6400 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB will be much (more or less 81%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 6750. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB		47232 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6750		26100 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21132 (81%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB is a little bit (approximately 2%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 6750, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB		11808 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6750		11600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 208 (2%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.