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GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon HD 5550
Intro
The GeForce GT 430 features a clock speed of 700 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 96 SPUs, 16 TAUs, and 4 Raster Operation Units.Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 5550, which has a GPU core clock speed of 550 MHz, and 512 MB of DDR2 RAM set to run at 400 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 320(64x5) SPUs, 16 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Memory Bandwidth
As far as performance goes, the GeForce GT 430 should in theory be much better than the Radeon HD 5550 overall. (explain)
| GeForce GT 430 |
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28800 MB/sec |
| Radeon HD 5550 |
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12800 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The GeForce GT 430 will be quite a bit (approximately 27%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 5550. (explain)| GeForce GT 430 |
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11200 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon HD 5550 |
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8800 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5550 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)| Radeon HD 5550 |
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4400 Mpixels/sec |
| GeForce GT 430 |
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2800 Mpixels/sec |
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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
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Specifications
| Model | GeForce GT 430 | Radeon HD 5550 |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | October 2010 | February 9, 2010 |
| Code Name | GF108 | Redwood LE |
| Memory | 512 MB | 512 MB |
| Core Speed | 700 MHz | 550 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 1800 MHz | 800 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 60 watts | (Unknown) watts |
| Bandwidth | 28800 MB/sec | 12800 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 11200 Mtexels/sec | 8800 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 2800 Mpixels/sec | 4400 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 96 | 320(64x5) |
| Texture Mapping Units | 16 | 16 |
| Render Output Units | 4 | 8 |
| Bus Type | GDDR3 | DDR2 |
| Bus Width | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 585 million | 627 million |
| Bus | PCIe x16 | PCIe 2.1 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11 | DirectX 11 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.1 | OpenGL 3.2 |
Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. 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 rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.
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Radeon HD 5550Amazon.com
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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