NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 500W)
AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
1952 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430 PCI
0.269 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7970 X2
+1308%
3.789 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Aug 2012
GeForce 400
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
9.600GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
2048
16
TMUs
128
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
49W
TDP
500W
200 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
New Zealand
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
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
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
