GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 4350, which comes with GPU core speed of 575 MHz, and 512 MB of DDR2 RAM set to run at 500 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 80(16x5) Stream Processors, 8 TAUs, and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4350		22 Watts
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		40 Watts
	Difference: 18 Watts (82%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 4350 will be 25% quicker than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM) in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		6400 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4350 is much (about 156%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 8300 GS (OEM). (explain)

Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		1800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2800 (156%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 4350 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 8300 GS (OEM)		900 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1400 (156%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.