GeForce GTX 470 vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4350, which makes use of a 55 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 575 MHz. The DDR2 memory works at a speed of 500 MHz on this particular card. It features 80(16x5) SPUs as well as 8 TAUs 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 470		215 Watts
	Difference: 193 Watts (877%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 470 should in theory perform a lot faster than the Radeon HD 4350 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		133920 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 125920 (1574%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 470 is much (more or less 639%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		33992 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29392 (639%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 470 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 470		24280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21980 (956%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.