Radeon HD 4350 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4350		22 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 93 Watts (423%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 260X should perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4350 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 96000 (1200%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be quite a bit (approximately 1239%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57000 (1239%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be quite a bit (more or less 665%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 4350, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15300 (665%)

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 transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 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, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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