GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon R9 M370X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M370X, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 800 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1125 MHz on this model. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 M370X should be much faster than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		72000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 43200 (150%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M370X is much (more or less 186%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		32000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20800 (186%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M370X should be a lot (approximately 357%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 M370X		12800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10000 (357%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.