NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI and ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 17% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 600 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 800 MHz

Launch date	11 October 2010 vs 30 September 2008
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1

2.5x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 49 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 49 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI	ATI Radeon HD 4350 PCIe x1
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale
Code name	GF108	RV710
Launch date	11 October 2010	30 September 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	242 million
Floating-point performance		96 gflops
Pipelines		80
Texture fill rate		4.8 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x1
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	800 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory type		DDR2