Compare any two graphics cards:
GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 vs Radeon HD 4830 512MB
IntroThe GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 550 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 850 MHz on this model. It features 96 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 4830 512MB, which has core clock speeds of 575 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 640(128x5) SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.
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Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthIn theory, the Radeon HD 4830 512MB should be just a bit faster than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe Radeon HD 4830 512MB is a little bit (approximately 5%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 240 GDDR5. (explain)
Pixel RateIf using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 4830 512MB is the winner, by far. (explain)
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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Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.
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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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