GeForce 810M vs GeForce GT 430

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GT 430, which has core clock speeds of 700 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 96 SPUs as well as 16 TAUs and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GT 430, in theory, should perform a lot faster than the GeForce 810M in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 430 will be quite a bit (more or less 90%) better at AF than the GeForce 810M. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 810M will be a small bit (approximately 5%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GT 430, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce 810M		2952 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430		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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.