NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

2720 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430 PCI

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +1993%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 PCI

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

2816

16

TMUs

176

4

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

49W

TDP

580W

200 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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