NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 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 9 months late

Lower TDP (49W vs 165W)

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.66GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430 PCI

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2 +96%

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 PCI

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jan 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

49W

TDP

165W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

R680

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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