GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which makes use of a 6 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 2200 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a frequency of 2250 MHz on this card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 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 6500 XT		107 Watts
	Difference: 47 Watts (78%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 6500 XT should in theory be much better than the GeForce GT 430 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 118656 (412%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT will be much (approximately 1157%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 129600 (1157%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT is much (approximately 2414%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67600 (2414%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR 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 texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher 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 chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.