NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 vs AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 and AMD Radeon HD 6430M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440

AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 440

3.4x more core clock speed: 1620 MHz vs 480 MHz
3.4x more texture fill rate: 13.0 billion / sec vs 3.84 GTexel / s
2x better floating-point performance: 311.04 gflops vs 153.6 gflops
4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 774 vs 193
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 237 vs 106

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1620 MHz vs 480 MHz
Texture fill rate	13.0 billion / sec vs 3.84 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	311.04 gflops vs 153.6 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	774 vs 193
PassMark - G2D Mark	237 vs 106

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6430M

Around 67% higher pipelines: 160 vs 96

Pipelines	160 vs 96

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 440
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6430M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

774

193

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

237

106

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 440	AMD Radeon HD 6430M
PassMark - G3D Mark	774	193
PassMark - G2D Mark	237	106
Geekbench - OpenCL	2626
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	6.139
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	171.053
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.65
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	9.729
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	19.871
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1208
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3275
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1208
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2053
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3275

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 440	AMD Radeon HD 6430M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF108	Seymour
Launch date	1 February 2011	4 January 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$79
Place in performance rating	1342	1343
Price now	$69.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	14.03
Technical info
Core clock speed	1620 MHz	480 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	311.04 gflops	153.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	98 °C
Pipelines	96	160
Texture fill rate	13.0 billion / sec	3.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt
Transistor count	585 million	370 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA, HDMIVGADual Link DVI	No outputs
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	5.7" (14.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.2	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB GDDR5 or 1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 (DDR3) – 51.2 (GDDR5)	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz (GDDR5) or 900 MHz (DDR3)	1600 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR3
Standard memory config per GPU	1 GB GDDR5 or 2 GB
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA