Radeon HD 4350 vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M360, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1125 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 M360, in theory, should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 4350 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		16000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8000 (100%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M360 should be much (approximately 487%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		27000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 22400 (487%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M360 is superior to the Radeon HD 4350, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 M360		9000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6700 (291%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.