Radeon HD 6750 1GB vs Radeon HD 6770 1GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6770 1GB, which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1050 MHz on this particular card. It features 800 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6750 1GB		86 Watts
Radeon HD 6770 1GB		108 Watts
	Difference: 22 Watts (26%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 6770 1GB should be just a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6750 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB		67200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6750 1GB		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB will be much (approximately 38%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6750 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB		36000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6750 1GB		26100 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9900 (38%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6770 1GB is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB		14400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6750 1GB		11600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2800 (24%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.