GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which comes with a clock frequency of 825 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 M260X should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260X should be a lot (approximately 77%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260X is quite a bit (more or less 136%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), and able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X		6600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		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 max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.