GeForce GT 440 1.5GB vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4350, which has GPU clock speed of 575 MHz, and 512 MB of DDR2 memory set to run at 500 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 80(16x5) SPUs, 8 Texture Address Units, and 4 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4350		22 Watts
GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		56 Watts
	Difference: 34 Watts (155%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB will be 440% faster than the Radeon HD 4350 in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		43200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 35200 (440%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 440 1.5GB will be much (more or less 210%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9656 (210%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GT 440 1.5GB is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GT 440 1.5GB		14256 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 11956 (520%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many 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.