GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon RX 5500 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5500 XT, which has core speeds of 1717 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. 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		60 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 XT		130 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (117%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GT 430 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT should be a lot (more or less 1249%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 XT is much (approximately 1862%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 XT		54944 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430		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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one 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 figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.