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GeForce GTX 880M vs Radeon HD 4850 X2 512MB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 880M has core clock speeds of 954 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1536 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 4850 X2 512MB, which features a clock speed of 625 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 993 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It features 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 880M 130 Watts
Radeon HD 4850 X2 512MB 250 Watts
Difference: 120 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 880M should theoretically be just a bit superior to the Radeon HD 4850 X2 512MB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M 128000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4850 X2 512MB 127104 MB/sec
Difference: 896 (1%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 880M is quite a bit (more or less 144%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 4850 X2 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M 122112 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 X2 512MB 50000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 72112 (144%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 880M will be much (approximately 53%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4850 X2 512MB, and able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 880M 30528 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 X2 512MB 20000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 10528 (53%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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GeForce GTX 880M

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 880M Radeon HD 4850 X2 512MB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 12 2014 Nov 7, 2008
Code Name GK104 R700
Memory 4096 MB 512 MB (x2)
Core Speed 954 MHz 625 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 4000 MHz 1986 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 250 watts
Bandwidth 128000 MB/sec 127104 MB/sec
Texel Rate 122112 Mtexels/sec 50000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 30528 Mpixels/sec 20000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 800(160x5) (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 128 40 (x2)
Render Output Units 32 16 (x2)
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR3
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit (x2)
Fab Process 28 nm 55 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 956 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16 (PCIe bridge)
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. 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 ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 880M

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Radeon HD 4850 X2 512MB

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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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