GeForce GT 430 vs GeForce GTX 560
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 430 's Advantages
Lower TDP (49W vs 150W)
GeForce GTX 560 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
240 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
269
GeForce GTX 560
+304%
1089
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
May 2011
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 500
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
7
96
Shading Units
336
16
TMUs
56
4
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
128 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.34 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
45.36 GTexel/s
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
90.72 GFLOPS
Board Design
49W
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
GF114
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
GF114-325-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
