Radeon R7 430 OEM vs GeForce 7800 GT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1190not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.67no data
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameG70Oland
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 August 2005 (19 years ago)30 June 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 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 coresno data384
Core clock speed400 MHz730 MHz
Boost clock speedno data780 MHz
Number of transistors302 million950 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate8.00018.72
Floating-point processing powerno data0.599 TFLOPS
ROPs168
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 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length226 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 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 typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s28.8 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.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (11_1)
Shader Model3.05.1
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 August 2005 30 June 2016
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 110 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 50 Watt

R7 430 OEM has an age advantage of 10 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 30% lower power consumption.

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NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
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