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GeForce 8800 Ultra vs Radeon HD 4870 1GB
IntroThe GeForce 8800 Ultra makes use of a 90 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 612 MHz. The GDDR3 memory runs at a frequency of 1080 MHz on this card. It features 128 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4870 1GB, which makes use of a 55 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 750 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 800(160x5) SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.
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Memory BandwidthThe Radeon HD 4870 1GB, in theory, should be a small bit faster than the GeForce 8800 Ultra in general. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce 8800 Ultra should be quite a bit (more or less 31%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 4870 1GB. (explain)
Pixel RateThe GeForce 8800 Ultra will be a lot (about 22%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 4870 1GB, and able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)
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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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably 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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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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