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Radeon HD 4890 2GB vs Radeon HD 6790

Intro

The Radeon HD 4890 2GB features a GPU core speed of 1000 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 975 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6790, which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 840 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1050 MHz on this card. It features 800 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6790 150 Watts
Radeon HD 4890 2GB 190 Watts
Difference: 40 Watts (27%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6790 should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 4890 2GB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6790 134400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4890 2GB 124800 MB/sec
Difference: 9600 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4890 2GB is a little bit (approximately 19%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6790. (explain)

Radeon HD 4890 2GB 40000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6790 33600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 6400 (19%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 4890 2GB is superior to the Radeon HD 6790, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon HD 4890 2GB 16000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6790 13440 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2560 (19%)

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

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Model Radeon HD 4890 2GB Radeon HD 6790
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Apr 2, 2009 April 2011
Code Name RV790 XT Barts LE
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 840 MHz
Memory Speed 3900 MHz 4200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 190 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 124800 MB/sec 134400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 40000 Mtexels/sec 33600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 16000 Mpixels/sec 13440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) 800
Texture Mapping Units 40 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 959 million 1700 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling 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 the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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