GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M260X, which makes use of 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 specific card. 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

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 M260X should in theory be much better than 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 quite a bit (approximately 77%) more effective at texture filtering 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

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M260X is a better choice, by a large margin. (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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must 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 AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.