GeForce GT 340 1GB vs Radeon HD 4770

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4770, which comes with clock speeds of 750 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640(128x5) SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 340 1GB		69 Watts
Radeon HD 4770		80 Watts
	Difference: 11 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GT 340 1GB is 6% quicker than the Radeon HD 4770 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GT 340 1GB		54400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4770		51200 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (6%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4770 should be quite a bit (approximately 36%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 340 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 4770		24000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6400 (36%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 4770 will be much (more or less 173%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GT 340 1GB, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon HD 4770		12000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 340 1GB		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7600 (173%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.