NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 430 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (47W vs 49W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GT

0.076 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 OEM +253%

0.269 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GT

VS

GeForce GT 430 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2007

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

2

32

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.320 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

8.640 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

76.16 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

47W

TDP

49W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF108

G84-303-A2

GPU Variant

GF108-400-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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