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GeForce GT 315 vs GeForce GT 430

Intro

The GeForce GT 315 has clock speeds of 625 MHz on the GPU, and 790 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR3 RAM. It features 48 SPUs along with 16 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

Compare that to the GeForce GT 430, which comes with core speeds of 700 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. It features 96 SPUs as well as 16 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 315 52 Watts
GeForce GT 430 60 Watts
Difference: 8 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GT 430 should in theory be a small bit superior to the GeForce GT 315 overall. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 28800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 315 25280 MB/sec
Difference: 3520 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 430 will be a little bit (more or less 12%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 315. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 11200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 315 10000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 1200 (12%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GT 315 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce GT 315 5000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 2800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2200 (79%)

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

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Model GeForce GT 315 GeForce GT 430
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year November 2009 October 2010
Code Name GT216 GF108
Memory 512 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 625 MHz 700 MHz
Memory Speed 1580 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 52 watts 60 watts
Bandwidth 25280 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 10000 Mtexels/sec 11200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 5000 Mpixels/sec 2800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 48 96
Texture Mapping Units 16 16
Render Output Units 8 4
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 486 million 585 million
Bus PCIe 2.0 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10.1 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.2 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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