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GeForce GT 440 1.5GB vs Radeon HD 4890 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GT 440 1.5GB comes with a clock speed of 594 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 144 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 24 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 4890 2GB, which uses a 55 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 975 MHz on this particular card. It features 800(160x5) SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB 56 Watts
Radeon HD 4890 2GB 190 Watts
Difference: 134 Watts (239%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 4890 2GB should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4890 2GB 124800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB 43200 MB/sec
Difference: 81600 (189%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4890 2GB should be a lot (more or less 181%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 4890 2GB 40000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB 14256 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 25744 (181%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 4890 2GB will be just a bit (approximately 12%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon HD 4890 2GB 16000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB 14256 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1744 (12%)

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 GT 440 1.5GB Radeon HD 4890 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 Apr 2, 2009
Code Name GF106 RV790 XT
Memory 1536 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 594 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 3900 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 56 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 43200 MB/sec 124800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 14256 Mtexels/sec 40000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 14256 Mpixels/sec 16000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 144 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 24 40
Render Output Units 24 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 55 nm
Transistors 1170 million 959 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated 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 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated 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 video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

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

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GeForce GT 440 1.5GB

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Radeon HD 4890 2GB

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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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