GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1400 MHz on this particular model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		60 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 370 2G should be 522% faster than the GeForce GT 430 1GB in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 150400 (522%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G will be a lot (about 457%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 51200 (457%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is superior to the GeForce GT 430 1GB, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28400 (1014%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.