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GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon HD 6770 1GB

Intro

The GeForce GTS 450 uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 783 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 902 MHz on this particular model. It features 192 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6770 1GB, which has a GPU core clock speed of 900 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1050 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 800 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTS 450 106 Watts
Radeon HD 6770 1GB 108 Watts
Difference: 2 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6770 1GB will be 16% quicker than the GeForce GTS 450 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 67200 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 450 57728 MB/sec
Difference: 9472 (16%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB will be a lot (more or less 44%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTS 450. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 36000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTS 450 25056 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 10944 (44%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB will be a small bit (more or less 15%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTS 450, and able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 14400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 450 12528 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1872 (15%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTS 450 Radeon HD 6770 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2010 January 2011
Code Name GF106 Juniper XT
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 783 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 3608 MHz 4200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 106 watts 108 watts
Bandwidth 57728 MB/sec 67200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 25056 Mtexels/sec 36000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 12528 Mpixels/sec 14400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 192 800
Texture Mapping Units 32 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1170 million 1040 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTS 450

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Radeon HD 6770 1GB

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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