AMD Radeon 550X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 430 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X +363%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X

VS

GeForce GT 430

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Oct 2010

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1082 MHz

Base Clock

-

1218 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

38.98 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

1247 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1247 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

77.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GF108

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GF108-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Fermi

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

49W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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