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GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs Radeon HD 5770

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) features a core clock speed of 650 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 970 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 65 nm design. It is comprised of 128 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 5770, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 850 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1200 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 800(160x5) SPUs, 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
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 135 Watts
Difference: 27 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 5770 should be much faster than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770 76800 MB/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 62080 MB/sec
Difference: 14720 (24%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) will be quite a bit (approximately 22%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 5770. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 41600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5770 34000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 7600 (22%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 5770 is much (more or less 31%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92), and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon HD 5770 13600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) 10400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3200 (31%)

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 GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) Radeon HD 5770
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Dec 2007 October 13, 2009
Code Name G92 Juniper XT
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 650 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 1940 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 135 watts 108 watts
Bandwidth 62080 MB/sec 76800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 41600 Mtexels/sec 34000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10400 Mpixels/sec 13600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 64 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 1040 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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