GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon R9 M375

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M375, which has a core clock speed of 1015 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1100 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M375 is 22% faster than the GeForce GT 430 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		35200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 6400 (22%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 is a lot (more or less 263%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		40600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29400 (263%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 is quite a bit (more or less 480%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GT 430, and will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		16240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13440 (480%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.