GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 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 4G		110 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (83%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 370 4G should be much faster than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G is much (more or less 457%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 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 higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.