GeForce GT 430 vs GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 430 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (49W vs 105W)
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.14GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
+68%
269
GeForce 8800 GS Mac Edition
160
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-HE
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
799 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
51.14GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
8
96
Shading Units
64
16
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.000 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
16.00 GTexel/s
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
160.0 GFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
105W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
G92
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
