Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB vs Radeon HD 6770 1GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6770 1GB, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1050 MHz on this model. It features 800 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB		50 Watts
Radeon HD 6770 1GB		108 Watts
	Difference: 58 Watts (116%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6770 1GB should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB		67200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB should be quite a bit (approximately 131%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB		36000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB		15600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20400 (131%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high 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 6570 (OEM) 2GB		5200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9200 (177%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.