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Radeon HD 4850 2GB vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

The Radeon HD 4850 2GB comes with a clock frequency of 625 MHz and a GDDR4 memory frequency of 993 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 55 nm design. It is made up of 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which has GPU clock speed of 975 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 2G, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4850 2GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 179200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4850 2GB 63552 MB/sec
Difference: 115648 (182%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is a lot (about 150%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4850 2GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 62400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 2GB 25000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 37400 (150%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is superior to the Radeon HD 4850 2GB, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 2GB 10000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 21200 (212%)

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 4850 2GB Radeon R7 370 2G
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Jun 25, 2008 June 2015
Code Name RV770 PRO Trinidad
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 625 MHz 975 MHz
Memory Speed 1986 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 110 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 63552 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 25000 Mtexels/sec 62400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10000 Mpixels/sec 31200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) 1024
Texture Mapping Units 40 64
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR4 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 956 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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.

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