AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

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AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 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 HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 's Advantages

Lower TDP (49W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +904%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 430

0.269 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

GeForce GT 430

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2010

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

96

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

GF108

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

GF108-300-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

49W

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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