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Radeon HD 4850 1GB vs Radeon HD 6770 1GB

Intro

The Radeon HD 4850 1GB comes with core speeds of 625 MHz on the GPU, and 993 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR4 memory. It features 800(160x5) SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6770 1GB, which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1050 MHz on this particular model. It features 800 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 108 Watts
Radeon HD 4850 1GB 110 Watts
Difference: 2 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB should in theory be a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4850 1GB in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6770 1GB will be quite a bit (about 44%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4850 1GB. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6770 1GB is superior to the Radeon HD 4850 1GB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 6770 1GB 14400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 1GB 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 1GB Radeon HD 6770 1GB
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Jun 25, 2008 January 2011
Code Name RV770 PRO Juniper XT
Memory 1024 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 GDDR4 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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core 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 rate also depends on many other factors, most notably 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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