GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 4350, which uses a 55 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 575 MHz. The DDR2 memory runs at a frequency of 500 MHz on this particular card. It features 80(16x5) SPUs along with 8 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4350		22 Watts
GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
	Difference: 43 Watts (195%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 960M should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon HD 4350 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56000 (700%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M is much (approximately 853%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39240 (853%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 960M is superior to the Radeon HD 4350, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15236 (662%)

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 transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to 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 get to the maximum fill rate.