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Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB vs Radeon HD 7770

Intro

The Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB has core clock speeds of 625 MHz on the GPU, and 993 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 800(160x5) SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications 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 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 7770 80 Watts
Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB 250 Watts
Difference: 170 Watts (213%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB should in theory be quite a bit superior to the Radeon HD 7770 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB 127104 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7770 72000 MB/sec
Difference: 55104 (77%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB will be a lot (about 25%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 7770. (explain)

Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB 50000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7770 40000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 10000 (25%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB is superior to the Radeon HD 7770, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB 20000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7770 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4000 (25%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB Radeon HD 7770
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Nov 7, 2008 February 2012
Code Name R700 Cape Verde XT
Memory 1024 MB (x2) 1024 MB
Core Speed 625 MHz (x2) 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 1986 MHz (x2) 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 127104 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 50000 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20000 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 GDDR3 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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB

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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.

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