GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon R7 360

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 360, which has core speeds of 1050 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430		60 Watts
Radeon R7 360		100 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R7 360 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GT 430 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 75200 (261%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 360 is much (about 350%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		50400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39200 (350%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 360 is superior to the GeForce GT 430, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 360		16800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14000 (500%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.