NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 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 150W)

AMD Radeon HD 6790 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790 +399%

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 400

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/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

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

49W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Barts

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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