GeForce GTX 960M vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 4350, which has GPU core speed of 575 MHz, and 512 MB of DDR2 memory running at 500 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 80(16x5) Stream Processors, 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 960M		65 Watts
	Difference: 43 Watts (195%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 960M should theoretically perform much faster than the Radeon HD 4350 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56000 (700%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M will be a lot (more or less 853%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39240 (853%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960M should be quite a bit (more or less 662%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 4350, and able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15236 (662%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at 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 that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output 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 reach the maximum fill rate.