GeForce GT 130 vs GeForce GT 430 (OEM)

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 700 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 900 MHz on this model. It features 96 SPUs along with 16 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		60 Watts
GeForce GT 130		75 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) should perform much faster than the GeForce GT 130 in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 MB/sec
	Difference: 16800 (140%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 130 will be a small bit (about 7%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

GeForce GT 130		12000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 800 (7%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GT 130 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GT 130		8000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5200 (186%)

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 max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the 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 clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel 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.