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Radeon HD 4890 1GB vs Radeon HD 6850

Intro

The Radeon HD 4890 1GB makes use of a 55 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 975 MHz on this specific model. It features 800(160x5) SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6850, which features clock speeds of 775 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 960 SPUs along with 48 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6850 127 Watts
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 190 Watts
Difference: 63 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 6850 should theoretically be a small bit better than the Radeon HD 4890 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 128000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 124800 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (3%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4890 1GB will be a little bit (about 8%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 6850. (explain)

Radeon HD 4890 1GB 40000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6850 37200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 2800 (8%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6850 is superior to the Radeon HD 4890 1GB, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 24800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4890 1GB 16000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 8800 (55%)

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 4890 1GB Radeon HD 6850
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Apr 2, 2009 October 2010
Code Name RV790 XT Barts Pro
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 775 MHz
Memory Speed 3900 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 190 watts 127 watts
Bandwidth 124800 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 40000 Mtexels/sec 37200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 16000 Mpixels/sec 24800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 800(160x5) 960
Texture Mapping Units 40 48
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 959 million 1700 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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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