Radeon HD 4770 vs Radeon HD 6750

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6750, which has clock speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 720 SPUs along with 36 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4770		80 Watts
Radeon HD 6750		86 Watts
	Difference: 6 Watts (8%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6750 should be 25% faster than the Radeon HD 4770 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		64000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4770		51200 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6750 should be a small bit (about 9%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4770. (explain)

Radeon HD 6750		26100 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4770		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2100 (9%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 4770 is the winner, but only just. (explain)

Radeon HD 4770		12000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6750		11600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 400 (3%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.