AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM 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 8870 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870 OEM +851%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 OEM

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

VS

GeForce GT 430 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Oct 2010

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GF108

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

GF108-400-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

49W

450 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

2x 6-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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