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GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Radeon R9 M295X

Intro

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

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M295X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 750 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1375 MHz on this card. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 1GB 60 Watts
Radeon R9 M295X 125 Watts
Difference: 65 Watts (108%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M295X is 511% quicker than the GeForce GT 430 1GB in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X 176000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 147200 (511%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X will be much (more or less 757%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X 96000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB 11200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 84800 (757%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M295X will be quite a bit (approximately 757%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430 1GB, and will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 M295X 24000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB 2800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 21200 (757%)

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 R9 M295X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 2014
Code Name GF108 Unknown
Memory 1024 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 700 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 5500 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 60 watts 125 watts
Bandwidth 28800 MB/sec 176000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 11200 Mtexels/sec 96000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2800 Mpixels/sec 24000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 2048
Texture Mapping Units 16 128
Render Output Units 4 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 585 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 applied in one second.

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

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GeForce GT 430 1GB

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Radeon R9 M295X

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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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