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Radeon HD 4790 vs Radeon R9 M280X

Intro

The Radeon HD 4790 features core clock speeds of 600 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640(128x5) SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M280X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1375 MHz on this card. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 4790 should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon R9 M280X overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 4790 102400 MB/sec
Radeon R9 M280X 88000 MB/sec
Difference: 14400 (16%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M280X is quite a bit (about 163%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 4790. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X 50400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4790 19200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 31200 (163%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M280X is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 M280X 14400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4790 9600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4800 (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.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 4790 Radeon R9 M280X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year 2009 Feb 9 2015
Code Name RV790 Saturn XT
Memory 512 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 3200 MHz 5500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 102400 MB/sec 88000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 19200 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 14400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640(128x5) 896
Texture Mapping Units 32 56
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 959 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 can 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 ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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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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