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GeForce 9800 GTX+ vs Radeon HD 4830 512MB

Intro

The GeForce 9800 GTX+ features core clock speeds of 738 MHz on the GPU, and 1100 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 128 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4830 512MB, which comes with a clock frequency of 575 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It is comprised of 640(128x5) SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4830 512MB 95 Watts
GeForce 9800 GTX+ 145 Watts
Difference: 50 Watts (53%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 9800 GTX+, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB in general. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GTX+ 70400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 12800 (22%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GTX+ should be much (more or less 157%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GTX+ 47232 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB 18400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 28832 (157%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce 9800 GTX+ is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GTX+ 11808 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB 9200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2608 (28%)

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 9800 GTX+ Radeon HD 4830 512MB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2008 Oct 21, 2008
Code Name G92b RV770 LE
Memory 512 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 738 MHz 575 MHz
Memory Speed 2200 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 145 watts 95 watts
Bandwidth 70400 MB/sec 57600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 47232 Mtexels/sec 18400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 11808 Mpixels/sec 9200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 640(128x5)
Texture Mapping Units 64 32
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 55 nm
Transistors 754 million 956 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9800 GTX+

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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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