AMD Radeon R5 430 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

Compare AMD Radeon R5 430 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

185 points

779 points

321% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

5 FPS

19 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

11 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

16 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

6 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

730 MHz

1100 MHz

50% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

780 MHz

1000 MHz

28% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

36.8 GB/s

104 GB/s

182% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

129% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

6.24 Gigapixels/s

17.6 Gigapixels/s

182% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

18.72 Gigatexels/s

61.6 Gigatexels/s

229% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

896

133% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

133% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

442nd of 586

284th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

Radeon R5 430 vs Radeon R7 260X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R7 260X GPU is faster than the Radeon R5 430 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon R7 260X has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon R7 260X also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon R5 430 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon R7 260X at 115 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon R7 260X is faster than the Radeon R5 430.