GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 vs GeForce GT 430 (OEM)

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 700 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a speed of 900 MHz on this particular model. It features 96 SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		50 Watts
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		60 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 overall. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (80%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 430 (OEM) should be quite a bit (approximately 27%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce 9500 GT DDR2. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		8800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2400 (27%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 9500 GT DDR2 is much (approximately 57%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce 9500 GT DDR2		4400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1600 (57%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record 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 - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.