GeForce GT 430 (OEM) vs Radeon R9 M375

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 M375, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1015 MHz. The DDR3 RAM runs at a speed of 1100 MHz on this specific card. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 M375 should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GT 430 (OEM) in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		35200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 6400 (22%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 will be quite a bit (about 263%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM). (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		40600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		11200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 29400 (263%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 M375 should be a lot (more or less 480%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 430 (OEM), and also able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 M375		16240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 (OEM)		2800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 13440 (480%)

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 transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.