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GeForce GTX 275 vs Radeon HD 4870 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 275 has a GPU core speed of 633 MHz, and the 896 MB of GDDR3 RAM is set to run at 1134 MHz through a 448-bit bus. It also is comprised of 240 Stream Processors, 80 Texture Address Units, and 28 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 4870 2GB, which has a GPU core clock speed of 750 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4870 2GB 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 275 219 Watts
Difference: 69 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 275 is 10% quicker than the Radeon HD 4870 2GB in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 275 127008 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4870 2GB 115200 MB/sec
Difference: 11808 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 275 is a lot (about 69%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4870 2GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 275 50640 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 2GB 30000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 20640 (69%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 275 will be quite a bit (more or less 48%) better at AA than the Radeon HD 4870 2GB, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 275 17724 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 2GB 12000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5724 (48%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 275 Radeon HD 4870 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year April 9, 2009 Jun 25, 2008
Code Name G200b RV770 XT
Memory 896 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 633 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 2268 MHz 3600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 219 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 127008 MB/sec 115200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 50640 Mtexels/sec 30000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 17724 Mpixels/sec 12000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 240 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 80 40
Render Output Units 28 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 448-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 55 nm
Transistors 1400 million 956 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. 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 fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 275

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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