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GeForce 8800 GT 512MB vs Radeon HD 4770

Intro

The GeForce 8800 GT 512MB comes with a GPU core speed of 600 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory runs at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 112 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4770, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 750 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 800 MHz on this specific card. It features 640(128x5) SPUs along with 32 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
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 105 Watts
Difference: 25 Watts (31%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 4770 overall. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4770 51200 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 8800 GT 512MB will be much (more or less 40%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4770. (explain)

GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 33600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4770 24000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 9600 (40%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 4770 is superior to the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 4770 12000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 9600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2400 (25%)

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 8800 GT 512MB Radeon HD 4770
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year Oct 2007 Apr 28, 2009
Code Name G92 RV740
Memory 512 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 600 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 3200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 105 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 51200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 33600 Mtexels/sec 24000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9600 Mpixels/sec 12000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 112 640(128x5)
Texture Mapping Units 56 32
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 65 nm 40 nm
Transistors 754 million 826 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce 8800 GT 512MB

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Radeon HD 4770

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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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