NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs AMD Radeon 540

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

AMD Radeon 540

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430

0.269 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540 +237%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 400

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

32bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Board Design

49W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Lexa

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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