Radeon R7 430 OEM vs R5 M430

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking935not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameExoOland
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 May 2016 (8 years ago)30 June 2016 (8 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 cores320384
Core clock speed1030 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speed1030 MHz780 MHz
Number of transistors690 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)unknown50 Watt
Texture fill rate20.6018.72
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPS0.599 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs2024

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 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x8
Widthno data1-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 typeDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s28.8 GB/s
Shared memory-no 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 30 June 2016
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB

R5 M430 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

R7 430 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 month.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 M430 and Radeon R7 430 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 M430 is a notebook card while Radeon R7 430 OEM is a desktop one.


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