NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Lower TDP (49W vs 150W)

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430 PCI

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT +7%

0.288 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 PCI

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

240

16

TMUs

12

4

ROPs

12

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

49W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

R600

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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