GeForce GT 430 1GB vs GeForce GTX 1630

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 1630, which features clock speeds of 1740 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 512 SPUs as well as 32 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
GeForce GTX 1630		75 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1630 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 430 1GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 69504 (241%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 should be a lot (about 397%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 44480 (397%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 is much (approximately 894%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430 1GB, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25040 (894%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.