GeForce GT 430 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Nvidia Titan X, which uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1417 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM runs at a frequency of 1251 MHz on this specific model. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 TAUs and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Nvidia Titan X should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GT 430 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is quite a bit (more or less 2734%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X should be a lot (approximately 4758%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430		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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.