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Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB vs Radeon HD 6770

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The Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB comes with a core clock speed of 625 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 993 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 55 nm design. It features 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6770, which features a core clock speed of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1050 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 800 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6770 108 Watts
Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB 250 Watts
Difference: 142 Watts (131%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB should be much faster than the Radeon HD 6770 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB 127104 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6770 67200 MB/sec
Difference: 59904 (89%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB is much (approximately 39%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6770. (explain)

Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB 50000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6770 36000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 14000 (39%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB 20000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6770 14400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 5600 (39%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB Radeon HD 6770
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Nov 7, 2008 January 2011
Code Name R700 Juniper XT
Memory 1024 MB (x2) 512 MB
Core Speed 625 MHz (x2) 900 MHz
Memory Speed 1986 MHz (x2) 4200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 108 watts
Bandwidth 127104 MB/sec 67200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 50000 Mtexels/sec 36000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20000 Mpixels/sec 14400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) (x2) 800
Texture Mapping Units 40 (x2) 40
Render Output Units 16 (x2) 16
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit (x2) 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 956 million 1040 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 (PCIe bridge) 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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few 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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