GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon HD 6970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 250W)
Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
269
Radeon HD 6970
+904%
2703
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Dec 2010
GeForce 400
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
1536
16
TMUs
96
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
28.16 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
49W
TDP
250W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
Cayman
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
Cayman XT
(215-0807007)
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
389 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
