GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon HD 4350

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4350, which comes with clock speeds of 575 MHz on the GPU, and 500 MHz on the 512 MB of DDR2 memory. It features 80(16x5) SPUs as well as 8 TAUs and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GT 430 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon HD 4350 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 430 will be quite a bit (approximately 143%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4350. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GT 430 is superior to the Radeon HD 4350, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GT 430		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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.