GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 M260, which comes with a core clock speed of 715 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GT 430 should in theory be much better than the Radeon R7 M260 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260 will be much (approximately 53%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260 will be quite a bit (about 104%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430		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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster 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 figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.