Radeon HD 4350 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 260X, which features GPU core speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 896 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4350		22 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 93 Watts (423%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 260X should in theory be much superior to the Radeon HD 4350 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 96000 (1200%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X will be a lot (approximately 1239%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57000 (1239%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15300 (665%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.