NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

AMD Radeon HD 6850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 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 127W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430 PCI

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 +453%

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 PCI

VS

Radeon HD 6850

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 400

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

960

16

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.80 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.20 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1488 GFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

49W

TDP

127W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Barts

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 705 OEM

3

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

4

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation

5

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT AGP

6

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3

7

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs NVIDIA P102 101

8

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

9

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE

10

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

Related News

1

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

2

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

3

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

4

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

5

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

6

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

7

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

8

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

9

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

10

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!