GeForce GTX 460 vs Radeon HD 7750

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7750, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1125 MHz on this specific model. It features 512 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 460		2557 points
Radeon HD 7750		2240 points
	Difference: 317 (14%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7750		55 Watts
GeForce GTX 460		150 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (173%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 460 should in theory be a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 7750 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		86400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7750		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 14400 (20%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 is quite a bit (more or less 48%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 7750. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		37800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7750		25600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12200 (48%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 is superior to the Radeon HD 7750, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460		16200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7750		12800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3400 (27%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its 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 - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.