NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (49W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 +77%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

0.269 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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GeForce GT 430

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

64bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

192

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

16

28

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GF108

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

GF108-300-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

182W

TDP

49W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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