NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (49W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280 +131%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 PCI

0.269 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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GeForce GT 430 PCI

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

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

240

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

GF108

G200-300-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

236W

TDP

49W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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