GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon HD 4830 512MB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4830 512MB, which has core speeds of 575 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 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)

Radeon HD 4830 512MB		95 Watts
GeForce GTS 450		106 Watts
	Difference: 11 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTS 450 should perform just a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450		57728 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 128 (0%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 450 is much (more or less 36%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450		25056 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB		18400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6656 (36%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTS 450 should be quite a bit (more or less 36%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB, and able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450		12528 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB		9200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3328 (36%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 texture map elements (texels) that are 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 graphics 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 that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant 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 maximum fill rate.