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GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB

Intro

The GeForce GT 430 (OEM) makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 700 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a speed of 900 MHz on this particular card. It features 96 SPUs as well as 16 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB, which comes with core clock speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 480 SPUs along with 24 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 50 Watts
GeForce GT 430 (OEM) 60 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same memory bandwidth, so theoretically they should perform the same. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB should be a lot (approximately 39%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 15600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM) 11200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 4400 (39%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB 5200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM) 2800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2400 (86%)

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 430 (OEM) Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 February 2011
Code Name GF108 Turks
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 700 MHz 650 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 60 watts 50 watts
Bandwidth 28800 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 11200 Mtexels/sec 15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2800 Mpixels/sec 5200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 480
Texture Mapping Units 16 24
Render Output Units 4 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 585 million 715 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the 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 - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 430 (OEM)

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Radeon HD 6570 (OEM) 1GB

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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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