GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB

Intro

The GeForce GT 430 (OEM) makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 700 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 900 MHz on this particular model. It features 96 SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB, which comes with core speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 480 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

Price Comparison

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Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB Amazon.com Other US-based stores Amazon.co.uk Amazon.de Amazon.fr

Specifications

Model	GeForce GT 430 (OEM)	Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 2GB
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	2048 MB	1024 MB
Core Speed	700 MHz	650 MHz
Shader Speed	1400 MHz	(N/A) MHz
Memory Speed	900 MHz (1800 MHz effective)	1000 MHz (4000 MHz effective)
Unified Shaders	96	480
Texture Mapping Units	16	24
Render Output Units	4	8
Bus Type	GDDR3	GDDR5
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	64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate	11200 Mtexels/sec	15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	2800 Mpixels/sec	5200 Mpixels/sec

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.