Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB vs Radeon HD 6770

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6770, which comes with core speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1050 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 800 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		63 Watts
Radeon HD 6770		108 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (71%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 6770 will be 5% quicker than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		67200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (5%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 should be much (about 88%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		36000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		19200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16800 (88%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6770 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		14400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB		6400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8000 (125%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 the video 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 number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.