GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 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 228W)
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
269
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
+911%
2720
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Jun 2010
GeForce 400
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1195 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
153.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
1600
16
TMUs
80
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
27.20 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
49W
TDP
228W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
Cypress
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
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