Compare any two graphics cards:
VS

GeForce GT 430 vs GeForce GTX 965M

Intro

The GeForce GT 430 has a clock frequency of 700 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 96 SPUs, 16 Texture Address Units, and 4 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 965M, which has a GPU core clock speed of 944 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 1024 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Display Graphs

Hide Graphs

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 965M should be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 430 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 965M 64000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 35200 (122%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 965M should be a lot (about 439%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)

GeForce GTX 965M 60416 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 11200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 49216 (439%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 965M is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 965M 30208 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 2800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 27408 (979%)

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

Display Prices

Hide Prices

GeForce GT 430

Amazon.com

Check prices at:

GeForce GTX 965M

Amazon.com

Check prices at:

Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Specifications

Display Specifications

Hide Specifications

Model GeForce GT 430 GeForce GTX 965M
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year October 2010 January 5 2015
Code Name GF108 GM204
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 700 MHz 944 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 60 watts 60 watts
Bandwidth 28800 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 11200 Mtexels/sec 60416 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2800 Mpixels/sec 30208 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 1024
Texture Mapping Units 16 64
Render Output Units 4 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 585 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

Display Prices

Hide Prices

GeForce GT 430

Amazon.com

Check prices at:

GeForce GTX 965M

Amazon.com

Check prices at:

Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

Comments

Be the first to leave a comment!

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


*

WordPress Anti Spam by WP-SpamShield