GeForce GT 430 vs Radeon R7 350 OEM

GeForce GT 430
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2010
GeForce GT 430
Radeon R7 350 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R7 350 OEM

Summary

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 350 OEM

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 350 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 350 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 430Radeon R7 350 OEM
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 350 OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 430Radeon R7 350 OEM
TDP49 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date11 Oct 2010vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 430
    2.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 430
    11.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 430
    12.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 430
    268.80 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better