NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
1568 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (49W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+1357%
3.92 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 430 PCI
0.269 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Oct 2010
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
1664
Shading Units
96
104
TMUs
16
56
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
268.8 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
22.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
49W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GF108
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GF108-300-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
2.1
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
