NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 430 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2720 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430 OEM

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +1993%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

96

Shading Units

2816

16

TMUs

176

4

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF108-400-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

49W

TDP

290W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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