GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon R9 M365X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M365X, which has a GPU core clock speed of 925 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1125 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 640 Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 M365X should in theory be much superior to the GeForce GT 430 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 43200 (150%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X will be much (more or less 230%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		37000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25800 (230%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M365X is a lot (about 429%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 M365X		14800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12000 (429%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.