GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 460, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1090 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		60 Watts
Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 460 should perform much faster than the GeForce GT 430 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 83200 (289%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 should be much (about 445%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 49840 (445%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 460 is superior to the GeForce GT 430 1GB, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14640 (523%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better 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 can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.