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Radeon HD 4670 1GB vs Radeon HD 6790
IntroThe Radeon HD 4670 1GB features a GPU core clock speed of 750 MHz, and the 1024 MB of GDDR4/GDDR3/DDR3/DDR2 memory runs at 1100 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 320(64x5) Stream Processors, 32 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.Compare that to the Radeon HD 6790, which comes with a clock frequency of 840 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1050 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 800 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthIn theory, the Radeon HD 6790 should be 282% faster than the Radeon HD 4670 1GB in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon HD 6790 will be much (about 40%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4670 1GB. (explain)
Pixel RateThe Radeon HD 6790 will be quite a bit (approximately 124%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4670 1GB, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)
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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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.
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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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