ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 145W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 X3 +59%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 PCI

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X3

VS

GeForce GT 430 PCI

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2010

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

320

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

10.70 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

428.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

145W

TDP

49W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

4x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GF108

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

GF108-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

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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