ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3550

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 49W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

56 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 +460%

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

VS

GeForce GT 430

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Oct 2010

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

396 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

6.336GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

40

Shading Units

96

4

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.376 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

2.376 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

47.52 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

49W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DisplayPort

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

GF108

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

GF108-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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