GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon R9 M375

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M375, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1015 MHz. The DDR3 memory runs at a frequency of 1100 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

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 M375 should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 will be quite a bit (approximately 263%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 should be quite a bit (more or less 480%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		16240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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