AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +1993%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430 OEM

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GT 430 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Oct 2010

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

2816

Shading Units

96

176

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

49W

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF108

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GF108-400-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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