NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT 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
Released 2 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
24 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (45W vs 49W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
+60%
0.269 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
0.168 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
120
16
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
168.0 GFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
45W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
RV630
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
