NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 430 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 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 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430 OEM

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +1308%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

49W

TDP

500W

200 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

New Zealand

GF108-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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