GeForce GTX 465 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 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

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 465 should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon HD 4350 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 465 is quite a bit (more or less 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 a lot (about 745%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 4350, and capable of handling 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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.