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GeForce GTS 250 1GB vs Radeon HD 4850 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB makes use of a 65/55 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 738 MHz. The GDDR3 memory runs at a speed of 1100 MHz on this card. It features 128 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4850 2GB, which has GPU clock speed of 625 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR4 RAM set to run at 993 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 800(160x5) Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4850 2GB 110 Watts
GeForce GTS 250 1GB 145 Watts
Difference: 35 Watts (32%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTS 250 1GB should in theory be a little bit better than the Radeon HD 4850 2GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB 70400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4850 2GB 63552 MB/sec
Difference: 6848 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB should be quite a bit (approximately 89%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 4850 2GB. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB 47232 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 2GB 25000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 22232 (89%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTS 250 1GB is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB 11808 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 2GB 10000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1808 (18%)

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 GTS 250 1GB Radeon HD 4850 2GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 3, 2009 Jun 25, 2008
Code Name G92a/b RV770 PRO
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 738 MHz 625 MHz
Memory Speed 2200 MHz 1986 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 145 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 70400 MB/sec 63552 MB/sec
Texel Rate 47232 Mtexels/sec 25000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 11808 Mpixels/sec 10000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 64 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR4
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 55 nm
Transistors 754 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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number 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 drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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