GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs Radeon HD 4850 512MB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 4850 512MB, which has GPU core speed of 625 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM set to run at 993 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 800(160x5) Stream Processors, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4850 512MB		110 Watts
GeForce GTX 660 Ti		150 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti is 127% quicker than the Radeon HD 4850 512MB overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		144000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4850 512MB		63552 MB/sec
	Difference: 80448 (127%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti should be a lot (about 310%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4850 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 512MB		25000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 77480 (310%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 660 Ti is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti		21960 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 512MB		10000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11960 (120%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.