NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

AMD Radeon R9 270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 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 R9 270 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 430

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 +780%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

VS

Radeon R9 270

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 400

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

49W

TDP

150W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Curacao

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

212 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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