GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4350, which features core speeds of 575 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR2 RAM. It features 80(16x5) SPUs as well as 8 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4350		22 Watts
GeForce GT 430 1GB		60 Watts
	Difference: 38 Watts (173%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GT 430 1GB, in theory, should perform much faster than the Radeon HD 4350 in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		28800 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 20800 (260%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 430 1GB should be quite a bit (about 143%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		11200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6600 (143%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 430 1GB is much (approximately 22%) more effective at AA than the Radeon HD 4350, and capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		2800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 500 (22%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.