NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (49W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 PCI +189%

0.269 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

GeForce GT 430 PCI

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

32

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

10.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

92.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

GF108

G84-400-A2

GPU Variant

GF108-300-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

Board Design

60W

TDP

49W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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