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GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

The GeForce GT 430 1GB features core speeds of 700 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 96 SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 825 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 M260X should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 430 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X 64000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 35200 (122%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260X is quite a bit (more or less 77%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X 19800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB 11200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 8600 (77%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M260X is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X 6600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB 2800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3800 (136%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 430 1GB Radeon R7 M260X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 June 2014
Code Name GF108 Opal
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 700 MHz 825 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 60 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 28800 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 11200 Mtexels/sec 19800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2800 Mpixels/sec 6600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 384
Texture Mapping Units 16 24
Render Output Units 4 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 585 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 430 1GB

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Radeon R7 M260X

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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