NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
80 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 49W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
+827%
0.269 TFLOPS
GeForce 8500 GT
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Apr 2007
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
2
96
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
-
-
-
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
30W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
G86
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
G86-300-A2
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
127 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
