GeForce GTX 570 vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

Compare all of 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 runs at a frequency of 500 MHz on this particular card. It features 80(16x5) SPUs along with 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 570		219 Watts
	Difference: 197 Watts (895%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 570 should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon HD 4350 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		152000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 144000 (1800%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 570 is a lot (about 855%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		43920 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39320 (855%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 570 is superior to the Radeon HD 4350, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 570		29280 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26980 (1173%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should 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, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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