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Radeon HD 4830 1GB vs Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB

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The Radeon HD 4830 1GB has a clock frequency of 575 MHz and a GDDR4 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 55 nm design. It is made up of 640(128x5) SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 750 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 160 SPUs along with 8 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB 31 Watts
Radeon HD 4830 1GB 95 Watts
Difference: 64 Watts (206%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 4830 1GB should in theory be quite a bit better than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4830 1GB 57600 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 28800 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4830 1GB is much (about 207%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 4830 1GB 18400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB 6000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12400 (207%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 4830 1GB should be much (approximately 207%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB, and able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 4830 1GB 9200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB 3000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6200 (207%)

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 4830 1GB Radeon HD 6450 (OEM) 1GB
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Oct 21, 2008 February 2011
Code Name RV770 LE Caicos
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 575 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 3600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 95 watts 31 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 18400 Mtexels/sec 6000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9200 Mpixels/sec 3000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640(128x5) 160
Texture Mapping Units 32 8
Render Output Units 16 4
Bus Type GDDR4 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 956 million 370 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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out 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 in a second.

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

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