GeForce GT 430 PCI vs ATI Radeon 7000

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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
ArchitectureRage 6 (2000−2007)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameRV100GF108
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date19 February 2001 (23 years ago)11 October 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 coresno data96
Core clock speed183 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors30 million585 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt49 Watt
Texture fill rate0.5511.20
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2688 TFLOPS
ROPs14
TMUs316

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).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data145 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDRDDR3
Maximum RAM amount32 MB512 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed183 MHz600 MHz
Memory bandwidth2.928 GB/s9.6 GB/s

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 VGA, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX7.012 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 February 2001 11 October 2010
Maximum RAM amount 32 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 180 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 49 Watt

ATI 7000 has 113% lower power consumption.

GT 430 PCI, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 350% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 7000 and GeForce GT 430 PCI. We've got no test results to judge.


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