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Radeon HD 4890 2GB vs Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB

Intro

The Radeon HD 4890 2GB has a clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 975 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 55 nm design. It features 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB, which has GPU clock speed of 650 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR3 RAM set to run at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 480 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 50 Watts
Radeon HD 4890 2GB 190 Watts
Difference: 140 Watts (280%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 4890 2GB should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 4890 2GB 124800 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 96000 (333%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4890 2GB will be quite a bit (approximately 156%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 4890 2GB 40000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 15600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 24400 (156%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 4890 2GB is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 4890 2GB 16000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 5200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 10800 (208%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 4890 2GB Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Apr 2, 2009 February 2011
Code Name RV790 XT Turks
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 3900 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 190 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 124800 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 40000 Mtexels/sec 15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 16000 Mpixels/sec 5200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) 480
Texture Mapping Units 40 24
Render Output Units 16 8
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR3
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 959 million 715 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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 4890 2GB

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Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB

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