GeForce GT 430 vs FireStream 9250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 and 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 430 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Lower TDP (49W vs 150W)
FireStream 9250 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430
269
FireStream 9250
+271%
1000
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
993 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
63.55GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
800
16
TMUs
40
4
ROPs
16
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.00 GTexel/s
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1000 GFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
200.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
49W
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
RV770
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
RV770 PRO
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
