GeForce 9800 GT 1GB vs Radeon HD 7750

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7750, which features GPU clock speed of 800 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 512 Stream Processors, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7750		55 Watts
GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		105 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (91%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 7750 should perform much faster than the GeForce 9800 GT 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		72000 MB/sec
GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 14400 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GT 1GB is much (about 31%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 7750. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		33600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7750		25600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8000 (31%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7750 is superior to the GeForce 9800 GT 1GB, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9800 GT 1GB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3200 (33%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum 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 clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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