NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 430 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +797%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 OEM

0.269 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GT 430 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Oct 2010

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GF108

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GF108-400-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

49W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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