GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which has core clock speeds of 1717 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		60 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (117%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5500 XT should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 430 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 200576 (696%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should be quite a bit (approximately 1249%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		151096 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 139896 (1249%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 XT is superior to the GeForce GT 430 1GB, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 52144 (1862%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.