GeForce GT 430 vs GeForce GTX 1050 3GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, which makes use of a 14 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1392 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 Texture Address Units and 24 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430		60 Watts
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB should be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 430 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 57216 (199%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be much (more or less 497%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55616 (497%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30608 (1093%)

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 moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.