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GeForce GTS 450 1GB vs Radeon HD 4770

Intro

The GeForce GTS 450 1GB has core speeds of 783 MHz on the GPU, and 902 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 192 SPUs as well as 32 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4770, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 750 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 800 MHz on this card. It features 640(128x5) SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4770 80 Watts
GeForce GTS 450 1GB 106 Watts
Difference: 26 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTS 450 1GB should be a little bit faster than the Radeon HD 4770 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450 1GB 57728 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4770 51200 MB/sec
Difference: 6528 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 450 1GB will be just a bit (about 4%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4770. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450 1GB 25056 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4770 24000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 1056 (4%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTS 450 1GB is just a bit (about 4%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4770, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTS 450 1GB 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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTS 450 1GB Radeon HD 4770
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2010 Apr 28, 2009
Code Name GF106 RV740
Memory 1024 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 783 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 3608 MHz 3200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 106 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 57728 MB/sec 51200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 25056 Mtexels/sec 24000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 12528 Mpixels/sec 12000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 192 640(128x5)
Texture Mapping Units 32 32
Render Output Units 16 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 1170 million 826 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTS 450 1GB

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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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