NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
Lower TDP (49W vs 141W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (70.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
0.269 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800 GTX
+74%
0.47 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Jan 2009
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1100 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
70.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
16
96
Shading Units
128
16
TMUs
64
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.81 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
47.23 GTexel/s
-
-
-
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
470.0 GFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
141W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
G92B
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
G92-420-B1
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
260 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
