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Radeon HD 3870 512MB vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

The Radeon HD 3870 512MB features core clock speeds of 775 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 320(64x5) SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 4350, which has 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 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4350 22 Watts
Radeon HD 3870 512MB 106 Watts
Difference: 84 Watts (382%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 3870 512MB should be 620% quicker than the Radeon HD 4350 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon HD 3870 512MB 57600 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350 8000 MB/sec
Difference: 49600 (620%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 3870 512MB should be much (approximately 170%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

Radeon HD 3870 512MB 12400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350 4600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 7800 (170%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 3870 512MB should be a lot (more or less 439%) better at AA than the Radeon HD 4350, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon HD 3870 512MB 12400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350 2300 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 10100 (439%)

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

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 3870 512MB Radeon HD 4350
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year Nov 19, 2007 Sep 30, 2008
Code Name RV670 XT RV710
Memory 512 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 775 MHz 575 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 1000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 106 watts 22 watts
Bandwidth 57600 MB/sec 8000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 12400 Mtexels/sec 4600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 12400 Mpixels/sec 2300 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 320(64x5) 80(16x5)
Texture Mapping Units 16 8
Render Output Units 16 4
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR2
Bus Width 256-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 55 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 242 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16/AGP 8x PCIe 2.0 x16, PCI
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If 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, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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