NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM 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 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430 PCI

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM +851%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 PCI

VS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

49W

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

212 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

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