GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 4350, which features a clock frequency of 575 MHz and a DDR2 memory frequency of 500 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It is made up of 80(16x5) SPUs, 8 Texture Address Units, and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4350		22 Watts
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		60 Watts
	Difference: 38 Watts (173%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon HD 4350 overall. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4350		8000 MB/sec
	Difference: 20800 (260%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 430 (OEM) will be a lot (approximately 143%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		4600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6600 (143%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		2800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4350		2300 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 500 (22%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at 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 could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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 rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.