GeForce GT 430 vs Quadro FX 550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 430 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)
96 additional rendering cores
Quadro FX 550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 49W)
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Apr 2006
GeForce 400
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
128MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.440 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.880 GTexel/s
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
30W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
NV43
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
Fermi
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
3.0
