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Radeon HD 4870 512MB vs Radeon HD 7750

Intro

The Radeon HD 4870 512MB comes with a core clock speed of 750 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 55 nm design. It features 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 7750, which features clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 512 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7750 55 Watts
Radeon HD 4870 512MB 150 Watts
Difference: 95 Watts (173%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 4870 512MB, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 7750 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 4870 512MB 115200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7750 72000 MB/sec
Difference: 43200 (60%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4870 512MB will be a little bit (approximately 17%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 7750. (explain)

Radeon HD 4870 512MB 30000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7750 25600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 4400 (17%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7750 is superior to the Radeon HD 4870 512MB, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750 12800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 512MB 12000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 800 (7%)

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 4870 512MB Radeon HD 7750
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Jun 25, 2008 February 2012
Code Name RV770 XT Cape Verde Pro
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 750 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 3600 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 55 watts
Bandwidth 115200 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 30000 Mtexels/sec 25600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 12000 Mpixels/sec 12800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) 512
Texture Mapping Units 40 32
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 956 million 1500 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 ability to get to the max fill rate.

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