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GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon HD 5770
Intro
The GeForce GT 430 makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 700 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 900 MHz on this card. It features 96 SPUs as well as 16 TAUs and 4 ROPs.Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5770, which comes with a clock frequency of 850 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1200 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is made up of 800(160x5) SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| GeForce GT 430 |
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60 Watts |
| Radeon HD 5770 |
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108 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
The Radeon HD 5770 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 430 in general. (explain)
| Radeon HD 5770 |
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76800 MB/sec |
| GeForce GT 430 |
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28800 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Radeon HD 5770 will be a lot (more or less 204%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 430. (explain)| Radeon HD 5770 |
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34000 Mtexels/sec |
| GeForce GT 430 |
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11200 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5770 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)| Radeon HD 5770 |
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13600 Mpixels/sec |
| GeForce GT 430 |
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2800 Mpixels/sec |
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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
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Specifications
| Model | GeForce GT 430 | Radeon HD 5770 |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | October 2010 | October 13, 2009 |
| Code Name | GF108 | Juniper XT |
| Memory | 512 MB | 1024 MB |
| Core Speed | 700 MHz | 850 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 1800 MHz | 4800 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 60 watts | 108 watts |
| Bandwidth | 28800 MB/sec | 76800 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 11200 Mtexels/sec | 34000 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 2800 Mpixels/sec | 13600 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 96 | 800(160x5) |
| Texture Mapping Units | 16 | 40 |
| Render Output Units | 4 | 16 |
| Bus Type | GDDR3 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 585 million | 1040 million |
| Bus | PCIe x16 | PCIe 2.1 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11 | DirectX 11 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.1 | OpenGL 3.2 |
Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its 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 the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.
GeForce GT 430Amazon.com
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Radeon HD 5770Amazon.com
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
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