GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Nvidia Titan X, which features core speeds of 1417 MHz on the GPU, and 1251 MHz on the 12288 MB of GDDR5X RAM. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 Texture Address Units and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		60 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 190 Watts (317%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Nvidia Titan X should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 430 1GB overall. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 462720 (1607%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be quite a bit (approximately 2734%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 306208 (2734%)

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is much (approximately 4758%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430 1GB, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 133232 (4758%)

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 past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.