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GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

The GeForce GT 430 (OEM) makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 700 MHz. The GDDR3 memory is set to run at a speed of 900 MHz on this specific card. It features 96 SPUs along with 16 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 240, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 730 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a speed of 900 MHz on this specific card. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240 30 Watts
GeForce GT 430 (OEM) 60 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have exactly the same bandwidth, so in theory they should have the same performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 240 is a lot (more or less 30%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 240 14600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM) 11200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 3400 (30%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 240 will be much (about 109%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 240 5840 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM) 2800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3040 (109%)

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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GeForce GT 430 (OEM)

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 430 (OEM) Radeon R7 240
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 October 2013
Code Name GF108 Oland PRO
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 700 MHz 730 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 60 watts 30 watts
Bandwidth 28800 MB/sec 28800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 11200 Mtexels/sec 14600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2800 Mpixels/sec 5840 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 320
Texture Mapping Units 16 20
Render Output Units 4 8
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 585 million 1040 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out 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 applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GT 430 (OEM)

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Radeon R7 240

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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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