GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 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 185W)
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
269
Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1
+956%
2842
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Jan 2012
GeForce 400
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/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
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
88.80 GTexel/s
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.842 TFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
710.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
49W
TDP
185W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
Tahiti
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO
(215-0821056)
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1