NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM 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 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM +1422%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

VS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

49W

TDP

375W

200 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Malta

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

365 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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