Radeon HD 4830 512MB vs Radeon HD 7750

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 7750, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1125 MHz on this particular card. It features 512 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7750		55 Watts
Radeon HD 4830 512MB		95 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (73%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 7750 will be 25% quicker than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		72000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB		57600 MB/sec
	Difference: 14400 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7750 should be quite a bit (more or less 39%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		25600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB		18400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7200 (39%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7750 will be a lot (about 39%) better at AA than the Radeon HD 4830 512MB, and will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 7750		12800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4830 512MB		9200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3600 (39%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 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, HDR 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 is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.