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GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon HD 4830 512MB
IntroThe GeForce GTS 450 uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 783 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 902 MHz on this card. It features 192 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4830 512MB, which makes use of a 55 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 575 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM runs at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular model. It features 640(128x5) SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.
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Memory BandwidthTheoretically, the GeForce GTS 450 should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GTS 450 will be a lot (approximately 36%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTS 450 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)
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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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second. Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.
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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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