Radeon HD 4350 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which comes with a clock speed of 825 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 M260X should perform much faster than the Radeon HD 4350 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X		64000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 56000 (700%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260X is quite a bit (approximately 330%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X		19800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15200 (330%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260X will be quite a bit (more or less 187%) more effective at AA than the Radeon HD 4350, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4300 (187%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.