GeForce GT 430 vs GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 430 |
146 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition . |
Supports PhysX |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
Around 959% higher average synthetic performance. |
Supports PhysX |
Supports G-Sync |
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition
The GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 430 | | GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition | |
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GPU Name | GF108 (GF108-300-A1) | vs | GK104 (GK104-400-A2) |
Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 116 mm² | vs | 294 mm² |
Transistors | 585 million | vs | 3,540 million |
Shaders | 96 | vs | 1536 |
Compute Units | 2 | vs | 8 |
Core clock | 700 MHz | vs | 1006 MHz |
ROPs | 4 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 16 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 430 | | GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition | |
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Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 256 bit |
Memory Speed | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective | vs | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 430 | | GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition | |
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TDP | 49 watts | vs | 195 watts |
Release Date | 11 Oct 2010 | vs | 3 Apr 2013 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)