GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition vs GeForce GT 430 OEM

GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Feb 2010
GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition
GeForce GT 430 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2010
GeForce GT 430 OEM
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 430 OEM

170 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 275 PhysX EditionGeForce GT 430 OEM
GPU NameGT200B (G200-105-B3)vsGF108 (GF108-400-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs40 nm
Die Size470 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs585 million
Shaders240vs96
Compute Units10vs2
Core clock633 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs28vs4
TMUs80vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 275 PhysX EditionGeForce GT 430 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width448 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1134 MHz
2268 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size896 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 275 PhysX EditionGeForce GT 430 OEM
TDP219 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date16 Feb 2010vs11 Oct 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition
    17.70 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 430 OEM
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition
    50.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 430 OEM
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition
    127.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 430 OEM
    25.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 275 PhysX Edition
    622.10 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 430 OEM
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better