Tegra 2 vs GeForce GT 430 PCI

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)VLIW Vec4 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameGF108Tegra 2
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 October 2010 (14 years ago)3 June 2010 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores96no data
Core clock speed700 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data400 MHz
Number of transistors585 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)49 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate11.201.600
Floating-point processing power0.2688 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs164

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed600 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth9.6 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)N/A
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6ES 2.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 October 2010 3 June 2010
Power consumption (TDP) 49 Watt 20 Watt

GT 430 PCI has an age advantage of 4 months.

Tegra 2, on the other hand, has 145% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 430 PCI and Tegra 2. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI
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