GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon HD 5850
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 430 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 1 months late
Lower TDP (49W vs 151W)
Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
269
Radeon HD 5850
+676%
2088
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 430
145
Radeon HD 5850
+275%
544
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Sep 2009
GeForce 400
Generation
Evergreen
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
-
Compute Units
18
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
1440
16
TMUs
72
4
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
52.20 GTexel/s
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.088 TFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
49W
TDP
151W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
Cypress
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO
(215-0735043)
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0