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GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Radeon HD 4670 1GB

Intro

The GeForce GT 430 1GB features a core clock speed of 700 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It features 96 SPUs, 16 Texture Address Units, and 4 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 4670 1GB, which comes with core clock speeds of 750 MHz on the GPU, and 1100 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR4/GDDR3/DDR3/DDR2 RAM. It features 320(64x5) SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 1GB 60 Watts
Radeon HD 4670 1GB 70 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (17%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 4670 1GB should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 430 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 4670 1GB 35200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (22%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 4670 1GB should be much (about 114%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 4670 1GB 24000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB 11200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12800 (114%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 4670 1GB is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 4670 1GB 6000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB 2800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 3200 (114%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 430 1GB Radeon HD 4670 1GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 Sep 10, 2008
Code Name GF108 RV730 XT
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 700 MHz 750 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 2200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 60 watts 70 watts
Bandwidth 28800 MB/sec 35200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 11200 Mtexels/sec 24000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2800 Mpixels/sec 6000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 320(64x5)
Texture Mapping Units 16 32
Render Output Units 4 8
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR4/GDDR3/DDR3/DDR2
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 55 nm
Transistors 585 million 514 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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GT 430 1GB

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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.

Comments

One Response to “GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Radeon HD 4670 1GB”
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