GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon HD 3830
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3830 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 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Lower TDP (49W vs 75W)
Radeon HD 3830 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (26.50GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
269
Radeon HD 3830
+59%
428
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Apr 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
828 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
26.50GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
320
16
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
16
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.69 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.69 GTexel/s
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
427.5 GFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
85.50 GFLOPS
Board Design
49W
TDP
75W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
RV670
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
RV670 PRO
(215-0708003)
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.1