GeForce GT 430 PCI vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1155not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.35no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameR600GF108
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date6 November 2007 (17 years ago)11 October 2010 (14 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 cores24096
Core clock speed601 MHz700 MHz
Number of transistors720 million585 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt49 Watt
Texture fill rate7.21211.20
Floating-point processing power0.2885 TFLOPS0.2688 TFLOPS
ROPs124
TMUs1216

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 2.0 x16
Lengthno data145 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-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 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz600 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 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.

DirectX10.0 (10_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model4.05.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 November 2007 11 October 2010
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 80 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 49 Watt

GT 430 PCI has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 206.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 2900 GT and GeForce GT 430 PCI. We've got no test results to judge.


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