NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 500W)
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2720 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
0.269 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 295X2
+2031%
5.733 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Apr 2014
GeForce 400
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
512bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
2816
16
TMUs
176
4
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
-
-
-
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
49W
TDP
500W
200 W
Suggested PSU
900 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
Vesuvius
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
Fermi
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.3
