GeForce 930M vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 4350, which features clock speeds of 575 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR2 RAM. It features 80(16x5) SPUs as well as 8 TAUs and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 930M will be 80% quicker than the Radeon HD 4350 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 6400 (80%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 930M should be a lot (about 384%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17672 (384%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce 930M is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5124 (223%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.