GeForce GT 130 vs GeForce GT 430 (OEM)

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), which has core speeds of 700 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 96 SPUs along with 16 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		60 Watts
GeForce GT 130		75 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GT 430 (OEM) should in theory be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 130 in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16800 (140%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 130 should be a little bit (about 7%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GT 130		12000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 800 (7%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 130 is much (approximately 186%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GT 130		8000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5200 (186%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.