Radeon HD 4350 vs Radeon R9 M295X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M295X, which has clock speeds of 750 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4350		22 Watts
Radeon R9 M295X		125 Watts
	Difference: 103 Watts (468%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M295X should be 2100% faster than the Radeon HD 4350 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		176000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 168000 (2100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X is quite a bit (about 1987%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		96000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 91400 (1987%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X should be much (approximately 943%) better at AA than the Radeon HD 4350, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X		24000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21700 (943%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.