NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 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

Lower TDP (49W vs 254W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430 PCI

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2 +471%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 PCI

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 400

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

96

Shading Units

960

16

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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

Board Design

49W

TDP

254W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

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