GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260, which features a GPU core clock speed of 715 MHz, and 2048 MB of DDR3 RAM running at 1000 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 384 Stream Processors, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GT 430 1GB should in theory be much faster than the Radeon R7 M260 overall. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		28800 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
	Difference: 12800 (80%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260 should be much (about 53%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5960 (53%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M260 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2920 (104%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.