AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 430 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +1308%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 OEM

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

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GeForce GT 430 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Oct 2010

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

96

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF108

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GF108-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

49W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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