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GeForce GT 430 vs GeForce GTX 960

Intro

The GeForce GT 430 has core speeds of 700 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 96 SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 960, which has a clock frequency of 1127 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 60 Watts
GeForce GTX 960 120 Watts
Difference: 60 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 960, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 430 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 112000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 83200 (289%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 will be a lot (about 544%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 72128 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 11200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 60928 (544%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 960 is a lot (more or less 1188%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 960 36064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 2800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 33264 (1188%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 430 GeForce GTX 960
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year October 2010 January 2015
Code Name GF108 GM206
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 700 MHz 1127 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 60 watts 120 watts
Bandwidth 28800 MB/sec 112000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 11200 Mtexels/sec 72128 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2800 Mpixels/sec 36064 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 1024
Texture Mapping Units 16 64
Render Output Units 4 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 585 million 2940 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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