Radeon HD 4870 vs GeForce GT 430 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 430 PCI 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Lower TDP (49W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 4870
+346%
1200
GeForce GT 430 PCI
269
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Oct 2010
Radeon R700
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
800
Shading Units
96
40
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
30.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.20 GTexel/s
1200 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
268.8 GFLOPS
240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
22.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
49W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GF108
RV770 XT
(215-0669049)
GPU Variant
GF108-300-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
4.1
Shader Model
5.1