Radeon HD 3850 X2 and GeForce GT 430 PCI - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3850 X2
GeForce GT 430 PCI
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
RV670
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2008
October 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
669 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 428.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
49 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.70
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