Radeon HD 4830 512MB vs Radeon HD 6770

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6770, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1050 MHz on this specific model. It features 800 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4830 512MB		95 Watts
Radeon HD 6770		108 Watts
	Difference: 13 Watts (14%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6770, in theory, should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		67200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 9600 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 should be much (about 96%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		36000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB		18400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17600 (96%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6770 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770		14400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB		9200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5200 (57%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a 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. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.