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Radeon HD 4830 1GB vs Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB

Intro

The Radeon HD 4830 1GB uses a 55 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 575 MHz. The GDDR4 memory runs at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular model. It features 640(128x5) SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB, which has clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 480 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB 63 Watts
Radeon HD 4830 1GB 95 Watts
Difference: 32 Watts (51%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB is 11% quicker than the Radeon HD 4830 1GB overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB 64000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4830 1GB 57600 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB is a little bit (about 4%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 4830 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB 19200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4830 1GB 18400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 800 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 4830 1GB is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 4830 1GB 9200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB 6400 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2800 (44%)

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 Radeon HD 4830 1GB Radeon HD 6670 (OEM) 1GB
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Oct 21, 2008 February 2011
Code Name RV770 LE Turks
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 575 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 95 watts 63 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 18400 Mtexels/sec 19200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 9200 Mpixels/sec 6400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640(128x5) 480
Texture Mapping Units 32 24
Render Output Units 16 8
Bus Type GDDR4 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 40 nm
Transistors 956 million 715 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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