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Radeon HD 4850 1GB vs Radeon HD 5770

Intro

The Radeon HD 4850 1GB has a clock speed of 625 MHz and a GDDR4 memory speed of 993 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It is made up of 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5770, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 850 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1200 MHz on this particular card. It features 800(160x5) SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5770 108 Watts
Radeon HD 4850 1GB 110 Watts
Difference: 2 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 5770 should in theory be much better than the Radeon HD 4850 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770 76800 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4850 1GB 63552 MB/sec
Difference: 13248 (21%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5770 is much (about 36%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 4850 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770 34000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 1GB 25000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 9000 (36%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5770 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770 13600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 1GB 10000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3600 (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.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 4850 1GB Radeon HD 5770
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Jun 25, 2008 October 13, 2009
Code Name RV770 PRO Juniper XT
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 625 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 1986 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 110 watts 108 watts
Bandwidth 63552 MB/sec 76800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 25000 Mtexels/sec 34000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10000 Mpixels/sec 13600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 40 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR4 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 956 million 1040 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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