Radeon HD 4350 vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M370X, which comes with core speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M370X should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon HD 4350 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 64000 (800%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M370X is quite a bit (more or less 596%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 27400 (596%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M370X will be quite a bit (approximately 457%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 4350, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10500 (457%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.