NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 430 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430 OEM

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +904%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 400

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/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

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

49W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Cayman

GF108-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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