Radeon HD 4350 vs Radeon HD 6870

Radeon HD 4350
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4350
Radeon HD 6870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6870

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4350

131 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6870 .
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6870

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6870

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6870

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4350Radeon HD 6870
GPU NameRV710 ()vsBarts (Barts XT)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size73 mm²vs255 mm²
Transistors242 millionvs1,700 million
Shaders80vs1120
Compute Units1vs14
Core clock600 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4350Radeon HD 6870
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4350Radeon HD 6870
TDP20 wattsvs151 watts
Release Date30 Sep 2008vs21 Oct 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4350
    2.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6870
    28.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4350
    4.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6870
    50.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4350
    6.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6870
    134.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4350
    96.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6870
    2016.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better