GeForce GT 430 PCI vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking868not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.09no data
Power efficiency1.04no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameRV670GF108
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date4 April 2008 (16 years ago)11 October 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$349 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores32096
Core clock speed669 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors666 million585 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)140 Watt49 Watt
Texture fill rate10.7011.20
Floating-point processing power0.4282 TFLOPS0.2688 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs1616

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 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mm145 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed828 MHz600 MHz
Memory bandwidth52.99 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 April 2008 11 October 2010
Chip lithography 55 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 140 Watt 49 Watt

GT 430 PCI has an age advantage of 2 years, a 37.5% more advanced lithography process, and 185.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3850 X2 and GeForce GT 430 PCI. We've got no test results to judge.


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