AMD Radeon HD 6430M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking1066not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money0.07no data
ArchitectureG9x (2007−2010)Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameNB8E-GTSeymour-LP
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date19 November 2007 (16 years old)4 January 2011 (13 years old)
Current price$110 $338
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores64160
CUDA cores64no data
Core clock speed500 MHz480 MHz
Number of transistors754 million370 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate16.003.840
Floating-point performance160 gflops153.6 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 8800M GTS and Radeon HD 6430M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-HEPCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

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 MB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s12.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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 outputsNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model4.05.0
OpenGL3.34.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

8800M GTS 382
+99%
HD 6430M 192

GeForce 8800M GTS outperforms Radeon HD 6430M by 99% in Passmark.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 19 November 2007 4 January 2011
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 40 nm

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8800M GTS and Radeon HD 6430M. We've got no test results to judge.


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