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GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB vs Radeon HD 4850 2GB

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB comes with clock speeds of 513 MHz on the GPU, and 792 MHz on the 320 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 96 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 20 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4850 2GB, which comes with GPU clock speed of 625 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR4 memory running at 993 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 800(160x5) Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4850 2GB 110 Watts
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB 143 Watts
Difference: 33 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 4850 2GB should in theory be a small bit better than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4850 2GB 63552 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB 63360 MB/sec
Difference: 192 (0%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4850 2GB is a bit (more or less 2%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 4850 2GB 25000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB 24624 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 376 (2%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB will be a bit (approximately 3%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon HD 4850 2GB, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB 10260 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 2GB 10000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 260 (3%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB Radeon HD 4850 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Feb 2007 Jun 25, 2008
Code Name G80 RV770 PRO
Memory 320 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 513 MHz 625 MHz
Memory Speed 1584 MHz 1986 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 143 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 63360 MB/sec 63552 MB/sec
Texel Rate 24624 Mtexels/sec 25000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10260 Mpixels/sec 10000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 48 40
Render Output Units 20 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR4
Bus Width 320-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 90 nm 55 nm
Transistors 681 million 956 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number 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 calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GTS (G80) 320MB

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