GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1625 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		60 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 260X should be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 430 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 75200 (261%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X is a lot (approximately 450%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 50400 (450%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14800 (529%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. 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 number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can 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 Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many 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.