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Radeon HD 3870 512MB vs Radeon HD 7750

Intro

The Radeon HD 3870 512MB uses a 55 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 775 MHz. The GDDR3 memory works at a speed of 900 MHz on this specific card. It features 320(64x5) SPUs as well as 16 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 7750, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1125 MHz on this card. It features 512 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 7750 55 Watts
Radeon HD 3870 512MB 106 Watts
Difference: 51 Watts (93%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 7750 should theoretically be a lot better than the Radeon HD 3870 512MB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750 72000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 3870 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 14400 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7750 should be a lot (approximately 106%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 3870 512MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750 25600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3870 512MB 12400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 13200 (106%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7750 is a little bit (about 3%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon HD 3870 512MB, and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750 12800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 3870 512MB 12400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 400 (3%)

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 3870 512MB Radeon HD 7750
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Nov 19, 2007 February 2012
Code Name RV670 XT Cape Verde Pro
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 775 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 106 watts 55 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 72000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 12400 Mtexels/sec 25600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 12400 Mpixels/sec 12800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 320(64x5) 512
Texture Mapping Units 16 32
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 1500 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16/AGP 8x PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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