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GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon R7 M260X

Intro

The GeForce GT 430 features a GPU clock speed of 700 MHz, and the 512 MB of GDDR3 memory is set to run at 900 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 96 Stream Processors, 16 TAUs, and 4 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260X, which features a GPU core clock speed of 825 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 Texture Address Units, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 M260X should perform much faster than the GeForce GT 430 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X 64000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 35200 (122%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260X should be a lot (more or less 77%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X 19800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 11200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 8600 (77%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 M260X is much (approximately 136%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260X 6600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 2800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3800 (136%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 430 Radeon R7 M260X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 June 2014
Code Name GF108 Opal
Memory 512 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 700 MHz 825 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 60 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 28800 MB/sec 64000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 11200 Mtexels/sec 19800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2800 Mpixels/sec 6600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 384
Texture Mapping Units 16 24
Render Output Units 4 8
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 x8
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 430

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Radeon R7 M260X

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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.

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