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GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon HD 3470 256MB

Intro

The GeForce GT 430 features core clock speeds of 700 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 512 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 96 SPUs along with 16 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 3470 256MB, which comes with a clock speed of 800 MHz and a DDR2 memory frequency of 950 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It is made up of 40(8x5) SPUs, 4 Texture Address Units, and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 3470 256MB should in theory be a small bit superior to the GeForce GT 430 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 3470 256MB 30400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 1600 (6%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 430 is much (more or less 250%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 3470 256MB. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 11200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3470 256MB 3200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 8000 (250%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 3470 256MB is superior to the GeForce GT 430, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon HD 3470 256MB 3200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 2800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 400 (14%)

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 Radeon HD 3470 256MB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 2008
Code Name GF108 RV620 PRO
Memory 512 MB 256 MB
Core Speed 700 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 1900 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 60 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 28800 MB/sec 30400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 11200 Mtexels/sec 3200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2800 Mpixels/sec 3200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 40(8x5)
Texture Mapping Units 16 4
Render Output Units 4 4
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR2
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 55 nm
Transistors 585 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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[...] GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon HD 3470 256MB – Performance …Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks. Memory Bandwidth. Theoretically speaking, the Radeon HD 3470 256MB is 6% faster than the GeForce GT 430 … [...]

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