Radeon HD 2900 PRO and GeForce GT 430 PCI - video card comparison
Radeon HD 2900 PRO
GeForce GT 430 PCI
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
R600
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2007
October 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
600 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
384.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
720 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
49 Watt
Texture fill rate
9.600
11.20
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
9.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A