Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB vs Radeon HD 5770

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 5770, which comes with a core clock frequency of 850 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1200 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5770		108 Watts
Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB		250 Watts
	Difference: 142 Watts (131%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB is 66% faster than the Radeon HD 5770 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB		127104 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5770		76800 MB/sec
	Difference: 50304 (66%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB should be much (more or less 47%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 5770. (explain)

Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB		50000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5770		34000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16000 (47%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB is a lot (more or less 47%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon HD 5770, and also capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon HD 4850 X2 1GB		20000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5770		13600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6400 (47%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.