Radeon HD 6750 1GB vs Radeon R9 M275X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 M275X, which features core speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M275X		50 Watts
Radeon HD 6750 1GB		86 Watts
	Difference: 36 Watts (72%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 M275X should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 6750 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M275X		72000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6750 1GB		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M275X will be much (more or less 38%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6750 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M275X		36000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6750 1GB		26100 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9900 (38%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M275X is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 M275X		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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied 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 graphics card will be at 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 that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.