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GeForce GTX 275 vs Radeon HD 4870 1GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 275 comes with a GPU clock speed of 633 MHz, and the 896 MB of GDDR3 memory is set to run at 1134 MHz through a 448-bit bus. It also is made up of 240 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 28 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4870 1GB, which features core clock speeds of 750 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 800(160x5) SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4870 1GB 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 275 219 Watts
Difference: 69 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 275 will be 10% quicker than the Radeon HD 4870 1GB overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 275 127008 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4870 1GB 115200 MB/sec
Difference: 11808 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 275 should be a lot (about 69%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4870 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 275 50640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 1GB 30000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 20640 (69%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 275 should be much (more or less 48%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 4870 1GB, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 275 17724 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 1GB 12000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5724 (48%)

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 GeForce GTX 275 Radeon HD 4870 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 9, 2009 Jun 25, 2008
Code Name G200b RV770 XT
Memory 896 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 633 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 2268 MHz 3600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 219 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 127008 MB/sec 115200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 50640 Mtexels/sec 30000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 17724 Mpixels/sec 12000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 240 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 80 40
Render Output Units 28 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 448-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 55 nm
Transistors 1400 million 956 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels 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 amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few 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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GeForce GTX 275

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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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