GeForce GTS 450 vs Radeon HD 4770

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4770, which features GPU clock speed of 750 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 800 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 640(128x5) Stream Processors, 32 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4770		80 Watts
GeForce GTS 450		106 Watts
	Difference: 26 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTS 450, in theory, should perform a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4770 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450		57728 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4770		51200 MB/sec
	Difference: 6528 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 450 is a small bit (more or less 4%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4770. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450		25056 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4770		24000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1056 (4%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTS 450 will be a bit (approximately 4%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4770, and able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450		12528 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4770		12000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 528 (4%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.