NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (49W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430

0.269 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 +77%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

896MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

448bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

24

96

Shading Units

192

16

TMUs

64

4

ROPs

28

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

49W

TDP

182W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

GT200

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

576 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

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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