GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon R9 M265X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M265X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 575 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1125 MHz on this particular card. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M265X should in theory be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M265X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 43200 (150%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M265X is quite a bit (about 105%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R9 M265X		23000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11800 (105%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R9 M265X is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon R9 M265X		9200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 6400 (229%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.