GeForce GT 440 1.5GB vs Radeon HD 4750

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4750, which comes with clock speeds of 730 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640(128x5) SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		56 Watts
Radeon HD 4750		75 Watts
	Difference: 19 Watts (34%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 4750 should in theory be a little bit faster than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4750		51200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		43200 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4750 is much (approximately 64%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 4750		23360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9104 (64%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 440 1.5GB is quite a bit (more or less 22%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4750, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4750		11680 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2576 (22%)

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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at 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 the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.