GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon R7 250

GeForce GT 430
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2010
GeForce GT 430
Radeon R7 250
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 250

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 430
    100%
  • Radeon R7 250
    271%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 430

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 250

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 171% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 250

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 250

The Radeon R7 250 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 430Radeon R7 250
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-300-A1)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders96vs384
Compute Units2vs6
Core clock700 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs4vs8
TMUs16vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 430Radeon R7 250
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 430Radeon R7 250
TDP49 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date11 Oct 2010vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 430
    2.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 430
    11.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 430
    12.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 430
    268.80 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 430
    1010
  • Radeon R7 250
    2740

Points (higher is better)