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GeForce GT 430 vs GeForce GT 430 (OEM)

Intro

The GeForce GT 430 uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 700 MHz. The GDDR3 memory runs at a speed of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 96 SPUs along with 16 TAUs and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

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 is set to run at a frequency of 900 MHz on this specific card. It features 96 SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same bandwidth, so in theory they should perform exactly the same. (explain)

Texel Rate

Both cards have exactly the same texel fill rate, so theoretically they should perform equally good at at anisotropic filtering. (explain)

Pixel Rate

Both cards have exactly the same pixel fill rate, so theoretically they should be equally good at at full screen anti-aliasing, and be capable of handling the same resolutions. (explain)

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

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Model GeForce GT 430 GeForce GT 430 (OEM)
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year October 2010 October 2010
Code Name GF108 GF108
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 700 MHz 700 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 60 watts 60 watts
Bandwidth 28800 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 11200 Mtexels/sec 11200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2800 Mpixels/sec 2800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 96
Texture Mapping Units 16 16
Render Output Units 4 4
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 585 million 585 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour 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 fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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