GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which comes with GPU clock speed of 975 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		60 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G		110 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 370 2G should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 150400 (522%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G is a lot (about 457%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 51200 (457%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 2G is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 28400 (1014%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one 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 video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one 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 clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.