GeForce GT 340 vs Radeon HD 4770

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4770, which features GPU core speed of 750 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 800 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 640(128x5) SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 340		69 Watts
Radeon HD 4770		80 Watts
	Difference: 11 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GT 340 should in theory perform a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4770 overall. (explain)

GeForce GT 340		54400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4770		51200 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (6%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4770 should be much (more or less 36%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 340. (explain)

Radeon HD 4770		24000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 340		17600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6400 (36%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 4770 is a lot (about 173%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 340, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 4770		12000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 340		4400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7600 (173%)

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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.