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Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs Radeon HD 7770

Intro

The Radeon HD 4870 X2 features a GPU clock speed of 750 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 800(160x5) Stream Processors, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 7770, which comes with core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7770 80 Watts
Radeon HD 4870 X2 350 Watts
Difference: 270 Watts (338%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 4870 X2 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 7770 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4870 X2 230400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7770 72000 MB/sec
Difference: 158400 (220%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4870 X2 will be a lot (about 50%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 7770. (explain)

Radeon HD 4870 X2 60000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7770 40000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 20000 (50%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 4870 X2 should be quite a bit (approximately 50%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon HD 7770, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 4870 X2 24000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7770 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 8000 (50%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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Radeon HD 4870 X2

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Radeon HD 7770

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 4870 X2 Radeon HD 7770
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Aug 12, 2008 February 2012
Code Name R700 Cape Verde XT
Memory 1024 MB (x2) 1024 MB
Core Speed 750 MHz (x2) 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 3600 MHz (x2) 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 350 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 230400 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 60000 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 24000 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) (x2) 640
Texture Mapping Units 40 (x2) 40
Render Output Units 16 (x2) 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit (x2) 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 956 million 1500 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 (PCIe bridge) PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher 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 number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 4870 X2

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Radeon HD 7770

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Comments

2 Responses to “Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs Radeon HD 7770”
Quad Damage says:

350W! Oh my sh**!

Shumacher says:

what do you expect, a queef?

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