GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, which comes with core clock speeds of 1506 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1152 SPUs along with 72 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		60 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 167808 (583%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is a lot (approximately 868%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 97232 (868%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is much (approximately 2482%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.