GeForce GT 430 1GB vs GeForce GTX Titan Black

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX Titan Black, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 889 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 2880 SPUs as well as 240 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		60 Watts
GeForce GTX Titan Black		250 Watts
	Difference: 190 Watts (317%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX Titan Black, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GT 430 1GB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		336000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 307200 (1067%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX Titan Black should be a lot (approximately 1805%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		213360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 202160 (1805%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX Titan Black is superior to the GeForce GT 430 1GB, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX Titan Black		42672 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 39872 (1424%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can 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 colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel 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 reach the maximum fill rate.