GeForce 810M vs GeForce GT 430 1GB

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GT 430 1GB, which features GPU core speed of 700 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR3 memory set to run at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 96 SPUs, 16 Texture Address Units, and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 810M		15 Watts
GeForce GT 430 1GB		60 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (300%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GT 430 1GB will be 100% faster than the GeForce 810M overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		28800 MB/sec
GeForce 810M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 14400 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 430 1GB is a lot (more or less 90%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		11200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 810M		5904 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5296 (90%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 810M will be just a bit (approximately 5%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GT 430 1GB, and also able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce 810M		2952 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 152 (5%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.