AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 430 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (49W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +237%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 OEM

0.269 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce GT 430 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2010

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

32bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

384

Shading Units

96

24

TMUs

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

49W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF108

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GF108-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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