Radeon HD 3850 AGP and GeForce GT 430 PCI - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
GeForce GT 430 PCI
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
RV670
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
October 2010
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
668 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
49 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.69
11.20
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1656 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
52.99 GB/s
9.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A