GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4350, which uses a 55 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 575 MHz. The DDR2 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 500 MHz on this particular card. It features 80(16x5) SPUs as well as 8 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4350		22 Watts
GeForce GTX 650 Ti		110 Watts
	Difference: 88 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti should perform a lot faster than the Radeon HD 4350 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		86400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 78400 (980%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti will be much (more or less 1191%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		59392 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 54792 (1191%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti will be a lot (more or less 546%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon HD 4350, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 650 Ti		14848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12548 (546%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.