Radeon HD 4350 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M260, which features GPU core speed of 715 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 Stream Processors, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 M260 should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4350 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260 is much (about 273%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12560 (273%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M260 is superior to the Radeon HD 4350, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3420 (149%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.