GeForce GTX 680 vs GeForce GT 430
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1058MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 430 's Advantages
Lower TDP (49W vs 195W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 680
+1108%
3250
GeForce GT 430
269
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 680
+1282%
2004
GeForce GT 430
145
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Oct 2010
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1006 MHz
Base Clock
-
1058 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
2
1536
Shading Units
96
128
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
4
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
33.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
135.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.20 GTexel/s
3.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
268.8 GFLOPS
135.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
22.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
195W
TDP
49W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GF108
GK104-400-A2
GPU Variant
GF108-300-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
