GeForce GT 430 1GB vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX Titan, which features clock speeds of 837 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2688 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		60 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 190 Watts (317%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX Titan should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 430 1GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 259584 (901%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan is a lot (more or less 1574%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 176288 (1574%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is superior to the GeForce GT 430 1GB, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37376 (1335%)

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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one 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 video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.