NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 680 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 +1108%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 PCI

0.269 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

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GeForce GT 430 PCI

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

96

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GF108

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

GF108-300-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

49W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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