NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages
Released 11 years late
More VRAM (512GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Oct 1999
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
32MB
DDR3
Memory Type
SDR
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
4
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
NV10
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
220 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
-
