S3 Graphics Chrome 430 GT: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
started S3 Graphics Chrome 430 GT sales 4 September 2008 at a recommended price of $59. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Chrome architecture and made with 65 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 256 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 0.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 6.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 9 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about S3 Graphics Chrome 430 GT: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Chrome (2008−2012) | |
| GPU code name | Destination 3 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 4 September 2008 (17 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $59 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
S3 Graphics Chrome 430 GT's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of S3 Graphics Chrome 430 GT's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 32 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Core clock speed | 625 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 196 million | of 185,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI350X) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 9 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 2.500 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.04 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 4 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of S3 Graphics Chrome 430 GT and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Width | 1-slot |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on S3 Graphics Chrome 430 GT: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 400 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 6.4 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on S3 Graphics Chrome 430 GT. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x VGA |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by S3 Graphics Chrome 430 GT, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 10.1 | |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
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