Radeon HD 4860 and GeForce GT 430 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 4860

GeForce GT 430

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

RV790

GF108

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

September 2009

October 2010

Bus support

-

PCI-E 2.0 x 16

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Core clock speed

700 MHz

700 MHz

CUDA cores per GPU

-

96

Floating-point performance

896.0 gflops

268.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

959 million

585 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

96

Power consumption (TDP)

130 Watt

49 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

-

98 °C

Texture fill rate

22.40

11.2 billion/sec

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

3000 MHz

800 - 900 MHz (1600 - 1800 data rate)

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

25.6 - 28.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

HDMIVGA (optional)Mini HDMIDual Link DVI

HDMI

-

+

Maximum VGA resolution

-

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

-

Internal

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

1.1

1.1

OpenGL

3.3

4.2

Shader Model

4.1

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A