GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 1060

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 1060, which has a clock speed of 1506 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 2000 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 16 nm design. It is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		60 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1060 should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 167808 (583%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is quite a bit (about 976%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 109280 (976%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is superior to the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 69488 (2482%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes 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 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 AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one 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 number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.