NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
Around 2% lower typical power consumption: 49 Watt vs 50 Watt
2x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz

Launch date	11 October 2010 vs 29 July 2008
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt vs 50 Watt
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

2x more core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 700 MHz

Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 700 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark		172
PassMark - G2D Mark		32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		0.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		56.838
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1505

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF108	G96C
Launch date	11 October 2010	29 July 2008
Place in performance rating	not rated	1666
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$85.99
Price now		$85.99
Value for money (0-100)		4.13
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	314 million
CUDA cores		32
Floating-point performance		89.6 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Pipelines		32
Texture fill rate		8.8 billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm	6.875" (17.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Maximum RAM amount		256 / 512 MB
Memory bandwidth		25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory type		GDDR3
Technologies
CUDA
SLI