GeForce GT 430 OEM vs Radeon R9 370X

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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
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameTrinidadGF108
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date27 August 2015 (9 years ago)11 October 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

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 cores128096
Core clock speed980 MHz700 MHz
Boost clock speed1030 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,800 million585 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)180 Watt49 Watt
Texture fill rate82.4011.20
Floating-point processing power2.637 TFLOPS0.2688 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs8016

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 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length221 mm145 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1400 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth179.2 GB/s25.6 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 HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 August 2015 11 October 2010
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 180 Watt 49 Watt

R9 370X has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

GT 430 OEM, on the other hand, has 267.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 370X and GeForce GT 430 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R9 370X
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