GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which uses 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 card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430		60 Watts
Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 370 4G should be much faster than the GeForce GT 430 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 150400 (522%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is a lot (more or less 457%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 51200 (457%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be much (approximately 1014%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GT 430, and also able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430		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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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