GeForce GT 430 vs GeForce 9600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT 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 8 months late
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (49W vs 95W)
GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
+29%
269
GeForce 9600 GT
208
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 430
145
GeForce 9600 GT
+139%
347
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/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
10.40 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
208.0 GFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
95W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
G94
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
240 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
