NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (49W vs 57W)

ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

Score

GeForce GT 430

VS

Radeon X1950 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

12

4

ROPs

12

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

11.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

268.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

22.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

49W

TDP

57W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

RV570

GF108-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV570 XL

Fermi

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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