Radeon HD 4850 2GB vs Radeon HD 7750

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7750, which has core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 512 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7750		55 Watts
Radeon HD 4850 2GB		110 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 7750 should be a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4850 2GB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		72000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4850 2GB		63552 MB/sec
	Difference: 8448 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7750 should be a little bit (more or less 2%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4850 2GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		25600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 2GB		25000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 600 (2%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7750 will be much (about 28%) more effective at AA than the Radeon HD 4850 2GB, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		12800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4850 2GB		10000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2800 (28%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one 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. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few 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.