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GeForce GTX 465 vs Radeon HD 4870 1GB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 465 comes with a core clock frequency of 607 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 802 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 352 SPUs, 44 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4870 1GB, which features GPU clock speed of 750 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 900 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 800(160x5) Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4870 1GB 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 465 200 Watts
Difference: 50 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 4870 1GB should perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 465 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4870 1GB 115200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 465 102592 MB/sec
Difference: 12608 (12%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4870 1GB should be just a bit (more or less 12%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 465. (explain)

Radeon HD 4870 1GB 30000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 465 26708 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 3292 (12%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 465 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465 19424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4870 1GB 12000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7424 (62%)

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 GTX 465 Radeon HD 4870 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2010 Jun 25, 2008
Code Name GF100 RV770 XT
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 607 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 3208 MHz 3600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 200 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 102592 MB/sec 115200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 26708 Mtexels/sec 30000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 19424 Mpixels/sec 12000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 352 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 44 40
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 55 nm
Transistors 3000 million 956 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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many 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 GTX 465

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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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