GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB

Intro

The GeForce GT 430 comes with a core clock speed of 700 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 96 SPUs, 16 Texture Address Units, and 4 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB, which has GPU clock speed of 650 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory running at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 480 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

Model	GeForce GT 430	Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB
Manufacturer	nVidia	ATi
Year	October 2010	February 2011
Code Name	GF108	Turks
Fab Process	40 nm	40 nm
Bus	PCIe x16	PCIe 2.1 x16
Memory	512 MB	1024 MB
Core Speed	700 MHz	650 MHz
Shader Speed	1400 MHz	(N/A) MHz
Memory Speed	900 MHz (1800 MHz effective)	900 MHz (1800 MHz effective)
Unified Shaders	96	480
Texture Mapping Units	16	24
Render Output Units	4	8
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Bus Width	128-bit	128-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 11	DirectX 11
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.1	OpenGL 4.1
Power (Max TDP)	60 watts	50 watts
Shader Model	5.0	5.0
Bandwidth	28800 MB/sec	28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate	11200 Mtexels/sec	15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	2800 Mpixels/sec	5200 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.