GeForce GTX 465 vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4350, which features 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 465		200 Watts
	Difference: 178 Watts (809%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 465 should in theory be much better than the Radeon HD 4350 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		102592 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 94592 (1182%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 465 will be a lot (about 481%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		26708 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22108 (481%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 465 is quite a bit (about 745%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4350, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 465		19424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17124 (745%)

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 moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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