NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 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 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430 PCI

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +1498%

4.301 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 PCI

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Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jun 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

96

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Tahiti

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

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

Board Design

49W

TDP

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

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