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GeForce 8800 GTX vs Radeon HD 4790

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTX has a GPU core speed of 575 MHz, and the 768 MB of GDDR3 RAM runs at 900 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is comprised of 128 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 24 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4790, which features a clock speed of 600 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 800 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It features 640(128x5) SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 4790, in theory, should be a bit faster than the GeForce 8800 GTX in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4790 102400 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTX 86400 MB/sec
Difference: 16000 (19%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTX should be a lot (about 92%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4790. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTX 36800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4790 19200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 17600 (92%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTX should be a lot (about 44%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4790, and able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTX 13800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4790 9600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4200 (44%)

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 8800 GTX Radeon HD 4790
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Nov 2006 2009
Code Name G80 RV790
Memory 768 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 575 MHz 600 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 3200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 155 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 86400 MB/sec 102400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 36800 Mtexels/sec 19200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 13800 Mpixels/sec 9600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 640(128x5)
Texture Mapping Units 64 32
Render Output Units 24 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 384-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 90 nm 55 nm
Transistors 681 million 959 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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GTX

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Radeon HD 4790

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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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