GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Radeon HD 4890 2GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4890 2GB, which has core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 975 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 800(160x5) SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 1GB		60 Watts
Radeon HD 4890 2GB		190 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (217%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 4890 2GB, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce GT 430 1GB in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4890 2GB		124800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 96000 (333%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4890 2GB is a lot (about 257%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 4890 2GB		40000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28800 (257%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 4890 2GB is a lot (more or less 471%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GT 430 1GB, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 4890 2GB		16000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13200 (471%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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