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Radeon HD 3850 X2 vs Radeon HD 4770

Intro

The Radeon HD 3850 X2 has clock speeds of 668 MHz on the GPU, and 828 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 320(64x5) SPUs along with 16 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 4770, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 750 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 800 MHz on this card. It features 640(128x5) SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 3850 X2 should be 107% faster than the Radeon HD 4770 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 3850 X2 105984 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4770 51200 MB/sec
Difference: 54784 (107%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4770 will be a little bit (about 12%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 3850 X2. (explain)

Radeon HD 4770 24000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3850 X2 21376 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2624 (12%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 3850 X2 is superior to the Radeon HD 4770, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 3850 X2 21376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4770 12000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 9376 (78%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 3850 X2 Radeon HD 4770
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Apr 4, 2008 Apr 28, 2009
Code Name RV670 PRO RV740
Memory 512 MB (x2) 512 MB
Core Speed 668 MHz (x2) 750 MHz
Memory Speed 1656 MHz (x2) 3200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) (Unknown) watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 105984 MB/sec 51200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 21376 Mtexels/sec 24000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21376 Mpixels/sec 12000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 320(64x5) (x2) 640(128x5)
Texture Mapping Units 16 (x2) 32
Render Output Units 16 (x2) 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit (x2) 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 826 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16/(internal PCIe 1.1 x16) PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed 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 the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 3850 X2

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Radeon HD 4770

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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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