GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 M265

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M265, which comes with core clock speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 M265, in theory, should be a small bit faster than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M265		32000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 3200 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M265 is a lot (more or less 55%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 M265		17400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6200 (55%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M265 will be a lot (more or less 107%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), and also should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R7 M265		5800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3000 (107%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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