NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 140W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1032MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430

0.269 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 +636%

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

VS

GeForce GTX 660

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Sep 2012

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

960

16

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

24

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

128 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

49W

TDP

140W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GK106

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK106-400-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

2.1

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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