NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 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

Lower TDP (49W vs 286W)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2 +346%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

VS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

49W

TDP

286W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

R700

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

R700 XT (215-0669045)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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