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GeForce 9800 GT 512MB vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

The GeForce 9800 GT 512MB comes with a GPU core speed of 600 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM runs at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 112 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 4350, which comes with core clock speeds of 575 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR2 RAM. It features 80(16x5) SPUs along with 8 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4350 22 Watts
GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 105 Watts
Difference: 83 Watts (377%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9800 GT 512MB is 620% faster than the Radeon HD 4350 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350 8000 MB/sec
Difference: 49600 (620%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GT 512MB is a lot (about 630%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 33600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350 4600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 29000 (630%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 9800 GT 512MB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 9600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350 2300 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7300 (317%)

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 GT 512MB Radeon HD 4350
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year July 2008 Sep 30, 2008
Code Name G92a/b RV710
Memory 512 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 575 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 1000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts 22 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 8000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 4600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 2300 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 80(16x5)
Texture Mapping Units 56 8
Render Output Units 16 4
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR2
Bus Width 256-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 55 nm
Transistors 754 million 242 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.0 x16, PCI
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce 9800 GT 512MB

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