GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs GeForce GTX Titan

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX Titan, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 837 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1502 MHz on this model. It features 2688 SPUs along with 224 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		60 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan		250 Watts
	Difference: 190 Watts (317%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan should in theory be much faster than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		288384 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 259584 (901%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan should be quite a bit (more or less 1574%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		187488 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 176288 (1574%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan		40176 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37376 (1335%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high 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 number of texture units 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.