GeForce GT 430 vs GeForce 7950 GT AGP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7950 GT AGP 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 6 months late
96 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (49W vs 65W)
GeForce 7950 GT AGP 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 7 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
24
4
ROPs
16
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.00 GTexel/s
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
65W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
G71
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
G71-GT2-H-N-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
90 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.278 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
196 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
3.0
