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GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) vs Radeon HD 4730
IntroThe GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) has clock speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 970 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 128 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare that to the Radeon HD 4730, which features a core clock frequency of 700 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It features 640(128x5) SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 8 ROPs.
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Memory BandwidthTheoretically speaking, the GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) will be 8% faster than the Radeon HD 4730 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) should be quite a bit (approximately 86%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4730. (explain)
Pixel RateThe GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) will be much (about 86%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4730, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions. Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum 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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