NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS 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)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (49W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430 +189%

0.269 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

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

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

4

96

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

49W

TDP

60W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

G84

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

169 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

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