AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2208 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +2068%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce GT 430

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Oct 2010

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

2304

Shading Units

96

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

49W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GF108

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GF108-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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