GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon HD 6770 1GB

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6770 1GB, which features clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1050 MHz on the 1024 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)

GeForce GTS 450		106 Watts
Radeon HD 6770 1GB		108 Watts
	Difference: 2 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB should theoretically perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTS 450 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB		67200 MB/sec
GeForce GTS 450		57728 MB/sec
	Difference: 9472 (16%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB should be a lot (more or less 44%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTS 450. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB		36000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTS 450		25056 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 10944 (44%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB should be a small bit (approximately 15%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTS 450, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB		14400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTS 450		12528 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1872 (15%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.