GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 260X, which features GPU 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 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 260X should perform much faster than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X should be quite a bit (more or less 450%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 260X is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		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 (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's 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 4 instead. The better the 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 are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.