GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which has a clock frequency of 1050 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430		60 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 360, in theory, should be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 430 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 75200 (261%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is quite a bit (approximately 350%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39200 (350%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is superior to the GeForce GT 430, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14000 (500%)

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 largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.