GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Radeon HD 7770

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7770, which comes with clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1125 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		60 Watts
Radeon HD 7770		80 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 7770 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 430 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7770		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 43200 (150%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7770 should be quite a bit (more or less 257%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 7770		40000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28800 (257%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 7770 will be much (approximately 471%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GT 430 1GB, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon HD 7770		16000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13200 (471%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling 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 could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.