GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1650 MHz on this specific model. It features 2048 SPUs along with 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		60 Watts
Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 470 should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 182400 (633%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is a lot (approximately 958%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 107328 (958%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 should be much (approximately 958%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), and also capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26832 (958%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.