GeForce 9600 GT 1GB vs Radeon HD 6750

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6750, which has a GPU core clock speed of 725 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 720 Stream Processors, 36 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6750		86 Watts
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		95 Watts
	Difference: 9 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 6750 should theoretically be a small bit better than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		64000 MB/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 6400 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6750 will be much (more or less 25%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		26100 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		20800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5300 (25%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6750 is a better choice, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		11600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB		10400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1200 (12%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.