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Radeon HD 4770 vs Radeon HD 4850 2GB

Intro

The Radeon HD 4770 has core clock speeds of 750 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 640(128x5) SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 4850 2GB, which comes with clock speeds of 625 MHz on the GPU, and 993 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR4 memory. It features 800(160x5) SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4770 80 Watts
Radeon HD 4850 2GB 110 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 4850 2GB, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the Radeon HD 4770 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 4850 2GB 63552 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4770 51200 MB/sec
Difference: 12352 (24%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4850 2GB will be just a bit (more or less 4%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 4770. (explain)

Radeon HD 4850 2GB 25000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4770 24000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 1000 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 4770 is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon HD 4770 12000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 2GB 10000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2000 (20%)

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 Radeon HD 4770 Radeon HD 4850 2GB
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Apr 28, 2009 Jun 25, 2008
Code Name RV740 RV770 PRO
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 750 MHz 625 MHz
Memory Speed 3200 MHz 1986 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 80 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 51200 MB/sec 63552 MB/sec
Texel Rate 24000 Mtexels/sec 25000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 12000 Mpixels/sec 10000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640(128x5) 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 32 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR4
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 55 nm
Transistors 826 million 956 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of 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 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 chip can 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 colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon HD 4770

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Radeon HD 4850 2GB

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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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