GeForce GT 430 vs FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 430 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
Lower TDP (49W vs 159W)
FireGL V8600 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
269
FireGL V8600
+63%
440
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 400
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR4
64bit
Memory Bus
512bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
320
16
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
16
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
159W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
R600
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
