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Radeon HD 3650 512MB vs Radeon HD 4650 1GB

Intro

The Radeon HD 3650 512MB has a clock speed of 725 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 800 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It is made up of 120(24x5) SPUs, 8 TAUs, and 4 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 4650 1GB, which features clock speeds of 600 MHz on the GPU, and 700 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 320(64x5) SPUs as well as 32 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4650 1GB 55 Watts
Radeon HD 3650 512MB 78 Watts
Difference: 23 Watts (42%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 3650 512MB should theoretically perform a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 4650 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 3650 512MB 25600 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4650 1GB 22400 MB/sec
Difference: 3200 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4650 1GB should be a lot (about 231%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 3650 512MB. (explain)

Radeon HD 4650 1GB 19200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3650 512MB 5800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 13400 (231%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 4650 1GB will be much (about 66%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 3650 512MB, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon HD 4650 1GB 4800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 3650 512MB 2900 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1900 (66%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 3650 512MB Radeon HD 4650 1GB
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year 2008 Sep 10, 2008
Code Name RV635 PRO RV730 PRO
Memory 512 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 725 MHz 600 MHz
Memory Speed 1600 MHz 1400 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 78 watts 55 watts
Bandwidth 25600 MB/sec 22400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 5800 Mtexels/sec 19200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2900 Mpixels/sec 4800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 120(24x5) 320(64x5)
Texture Mapping Units 8 32
Render Output Units 4 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 55 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million 514 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 x16/AGP 8x PCIe 2.0 x16, AGP 8x
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.0 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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