GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this particular card. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430		60 Watts
Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R7 370 4G will be 522% quicker than the GeForce GT 430 overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 150400 (522%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G should be much (approximately 457%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 51200 (457%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G should be quite a bit (more or less 1014%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430		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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.