GeForce GT 430 and GeForce 7800 GTX 512 - video card comparison

GeForce GT 430

GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

GF108

G70

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

October 2010

November 2005

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0 x 16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

-

Core clock speed

700 MHz

500 MHz

CUDA cores per GPU

96

-

Floating-point performance

268.8 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

585 million

302 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

-

Power consumption (TDP)

49 Watt

108 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

98 °C

-

Texture fill rate

11.2 billion/sec

12.00

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 - 900 MHz (1600 - 1800 data rate)

1600 MBps

Memory bandwidth

25.6 - 28.8 GB/s

51.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDMIVGA (optional)Mini HDMIDual Link DVI

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.2

2.1

Shader Model

5.1

3.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A