GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 715 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs along with 24 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) should be 80% quicker than the Radeon R7 M260 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260 should be much (approximately 53%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R7 M260 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.