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Radeon HD 4850 512MB vs Radeon HD 6770 1GB

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The Radeon HD 4850 512MB comes with clock speeds of 625 MHz on the GPU, and 993 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 800(160x5) SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6770 1GB, which has clock speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1050 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 800 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 6770 1GB 108 Watts
Radeon HD 4850 512MB 110 Watts
Difference: 2 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 6770 1GB should theoretically be a bit better than the Radeon HD 4850 512MB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 67200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4850 512MB 63552 MB/sec
Difference: 3648 (6%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB is quite a bit (more or less 44%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4850 512MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 36000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 512MB 25000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 11000 (44%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6770 1GB is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 14400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 512MB 10000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4400 (44%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 4850 512MB Radeon HD 6770 1GB
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Jun 25, 2008 January 2011
Code Name RV770 PRO Juniper XT
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 625 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 1986 MHz 4200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 110 watts 108 watts
Bandwidth 63552 MB/sec 67200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 25000 Mtexels/sec 36000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 10000 Mpixels/sec 14400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) 800
Texture Mapping Units 40 40
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 956 million 1040 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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Comments

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