GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT
Summary
GeForce GT 430
100%
Radeon HD 7870 XT
850%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 430 |
| 136 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7870 XT . |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7870 XT |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 750% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7870 XT
The Radeon HD 7870 XT is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 430 | | Radeon HD 7870 XT | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF108 (GF108-300-A1) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti LE) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 116 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 585 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 96 | vs | 1536 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 24 |
| Core clock | 700 MHz | vs | 925 MHz |
| ROPs | 4 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 96 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 430 | | Radeon HD 7870 XT | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 430 | | Radeon HD 7870 XT | |
|---|
| TDP | 49 watts | vs | 185 watts |
| Release Date | 11 Oct 2010 | vs | 19 Nov 2012 |
GeForce GT 430
2.80 GP/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT
29.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 430
11.20 GT/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT
88.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 430
12.80 GB/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT
192.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 430
268.80 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7870 XT
2842.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GT 430
1010
Radeon HD 7870 XT
8590
Points (higher is better)