GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs GeForce GTX 965M

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 965M, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 944 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 965M should perform much faster than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 965M will be much (approximately 439%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 965M is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 965M		30208 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen 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 number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.