NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GF108 G92B
GPU variant GF108-300-A1 G92-426-B1
Architecture Fermi Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 585 million 754 million
Die size 116 mm² 260 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 11th, 2010 Mar 4th, 2009
Generation GeForce 400 GeForce 200
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 79 USD 199 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 33 in our database 58 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 200 GeForce 9
Successor GeForce 500 GeForce 400

Clocks

GPU clock 700 MHz 675 MHz
Shader clock 1400 MHz 1620 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 1008 MHz 2 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 1024 MB
Memory type DDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 64 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 12.80 GB/s 64.51 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 96 128
TMUs 16 64
ROPs 4 16
SM count 2 16
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 128 KB 64 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 2.800 GPixel/s 10.80 GPixel/s
Texture rate 11.20 GTexel/s 43.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 268.8 GFLOPS 414.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 22.40 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
Length 145 mm 5.7 inches 229 mm 9 inches
TDP 49 W 150 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA 2x DVI
Power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Board number P1071 P365

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 2.1 1.1
Shader model 5.1 4.0

Other Features

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