GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 M260X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 825 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 M260X should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce GT 430 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260X should be a lot (more or less 77%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260X is quite a bit (about 136%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GT 430, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430		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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.