NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 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 195W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430

0.269 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition +1108%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

VS

GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1058 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.3GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.86 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.4 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.250 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

49W

TDP

195W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

GK104

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-400-A2

Fermi

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

294 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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