Radeon HD 4670 512MB vs Radeon HD 7770

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 7770, which features core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4670 512MB		70 Watts
Radeon HD 7770		80 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (14%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 7770 should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon HD 4670 512MB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7770		72000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4670 512MB		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 40000 (125%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7770 will be a lot (approximately 67%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4670 512MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 7770		40000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4670 512MB		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16000 (67%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7770 is superior to the Radeon HD 4670 512MB, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 7770		16000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4670 512MB		6000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10000 (167%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

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