GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M365X, which comes with GPU clock speed of 925 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M365X should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GT 430 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 43200 (150%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X is much (approximately 230%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		37000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25800 (230%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X will be a lot (approximately 429%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GT 430 1GB, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		14800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12000 (429%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.