NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs AMD FirePro W8000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (49W vs 225W)
AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
1696 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430 PCI
0.269 TFLOPS
FirePro W8000
+1099%
3.226 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 400
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
9.600GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
1792
16
TMUs
112
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
-
-
-
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
49W
TDP
225W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
Tahiti
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
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
