GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon R9 Nano

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Nano, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1000 MHz. The HBM memory works at a frequency of 500 MHz on this specific model. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		60 Watts
Radeon R9 Nano		175 Watts
	Difference: 115 Watts (192%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R9 Nano should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		512000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 483200 (1678%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano is much (about 2186%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		256000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 244800 (2186%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 Nano is quite a bit (about 2186%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), and able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 Nano		64000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 61200 (2186%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.