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Radeon HD 4890 1GB vs Radeon HD 5830
Intro
The Radeon HD 4890 1GB comes with clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 975 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 800(160x5) SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 5830, which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 1120(224x5) SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| Radeon HD 5830 |
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175 Watts |
| Radeon HD 4890 1GB |
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190 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
In theory, the Radeon HD 5830 should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 4890 1GB overall. (explain)
| Radeon HD 5830 |
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128000 MB/sec |
| Radeon HD 4890 1GB |
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124800 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon HD 5830 will be just a bit (more or less 12%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4890 1GB. (explain)| Radeon HD 5830 |
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44800 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon HD 4890 1GB |
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40000 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
The Radeon HD 4890 1GB should be much (more or less 25%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 5830, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)| Radeon HD 4890 1GB |
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16000 Mpixels/sec |
| Radeon HD 5830 |
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12800 Mpixels/sec |
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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
| Model | Radeon HD 4890 1GB | Radeon HD 5830 |
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| Manufacturer | AMD | AMD |
| Year | Apr 2, 2009 | February 25, 2010 |
| Code Name | RV790 XT | Cypress LE |
| Memory | 1024 MB | 1024 MB |
| Core Speed | 1000 MHz | 800 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 3900 MHz | 4000 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 190 watts | 175 watts |
| Bandwidth | 124800 MB/sec | 128000 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 40000 Mtexels/sec | 44800 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 16000 Mpixels/sec | 12800 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 800(160x5) | 1120(224x5) |
| Texture Mapping Units | 40 | 56 |
| Render Output Units | 16 | 16 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 959 million | 2154 million |
| Bus | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 2.1 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 10.1 | DirectX 11 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 3.0 | OpenGL 3.2 |
Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.
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