Radeon HD 4350 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 896 Stream Processors, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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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

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 260X should be 1200% quicker than the Radeon HD 4350 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is quite a bit (approximately 1239%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is quite a bit (approximately 665%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4350, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.