NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs ATI FireGL V3600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Lower TDP (49W vs 73W)
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
24 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 430 PCI
+86%
0.269 TFLOPS
FireGL V3600
0.144 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Jun 2007
GeForce 400
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
9.600GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
120
16
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
144.0 GFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
73W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
RV630
GF108-300-A1
GPU Variant
RV630 GL
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
