NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

ATI Radeon HD 3550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 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 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

56 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 49W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430 +460%

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

VS

Radeon HD 3550

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

6.336GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

40

16

TMUs

4

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.376 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

47.52 GFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

49W

TDP

30W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

RV620

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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