GeForce GTX 460 2GB vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 4350, which has core 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 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4350		22 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 2GB		160 Watts
	Difference: 138 Watts (627%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 460 2GB should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4350 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB		115200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 107200 (1340%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 2GB will be much (more or less 722%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB		37800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 33200 (722%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 460 2GB is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 2GB		21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19300 (839%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.