GeForce GTX 460 SE vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 4350, which has core speeds of 575 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR2 memory. It features 80(16x5) SPUs as well as 8 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4350		22 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 SE		150 Watts
	Difference: 128 Watts (582%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 460 SE, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4350 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE		108800 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 100800 (1260%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 SE is a lot (more or less 578%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE		31200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 26600 (578%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 SE is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE		20800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18500 (804%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.