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GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon HD 3650
Intro
The GeForce GT 430 comes with a core clock speed of 700 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 900 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It features 96 SPUs, 16 TAUs, and 4 ROPs.Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 3650, which features core speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 800 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR4 memory. It features 120(24x5) SPUs along with 8 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| GeForce GT 430 |
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60 Watts |
| Radeon HD 3650 |
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78 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GT 430 is 13% faster than the Radeon HD 3650 overall, due to its higher data rate. (explain)
| GeForce GT 430 |
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28800 MB/sec |
| Radeon HD 3650 |
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25600 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The GeForce GT 430 will be quite a bit (more or less 93%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 3650. (explain)| GeForce GT 430 |
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11200 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon HD 3650 |
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5800 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 3650 is a better choice, but only just. (explain)| Radeon HD 3650 |
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2900 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 3650 |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | October 2010 | 2008 |
| Code Name | GF108 | RV635 PRO |
| Memory | 512 MB | 1024 MB |
| Core Speed | 700 MHz | 725 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 1800 MHz | 1600 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 60 watts | 78 watts |
| Bandwidth | 28800 MB/sec | 25600 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 11200 Mtexels/sec | 5800 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 2800 Mpixels/sec | 2900 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 96 | 120(24x5) |
| Texture Mapping Units | 16 | 8 |
| Render Output Units | 4 | 4 |
| Bus Type | GDDR3 | GDDR4 |
| Bus Width | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 55 nm |
| Transistors | 585 million | (Unknown) million |
| Bus | PCIe x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16/AGP 8x |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11 | DirectX 10.1 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.1 | OpenGL 3.0 |
Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 most pixels the video card 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 Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.
GeForce GT 430Amazon.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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