Thread: Nvidia GeForce GT 430

Nvidia graphics cards with Fermi graphics chip are now in the form of the GeForce 430 GT available for around 80 €. Like all Fermi graphics cards it is compatible with DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4 and also supports OpenCL and CUDA - let this also be universal computations, such as video trans coding, the graphics chip to outsource. Through its integrated video unit GT is the 430 for playback of Blu-ray movies - even those with stereoscopic content. demanding 3D games you have to sometimes significant reductions in the level of detail and resolution make the



Nvidia graphics chip GF108 (700 MHz) consists of 585 million transistors and is 40-nanometer process from TSMC manufactured. On 2 streaming multiprocessors it is home to a total of 96 shader cores and 16 texture units. With only 4 grid amplifier is allowed in current games better in general, the finger of AA. The slow data transfer rate to memory functions as a brake: Because the GPU is in the reference design to 128 data lines with slow-DDR3 memory (1 GB, 900 MHz, 28.8 GB / s) attached.

the GeForce GT 430 between 15 and 25 percent faster than a GeForce GT 220th A GeForce GTX 240 with GDDR5 memory is much more nimble. In 3DMark Vantage achieved our GeForce GT 430 around 4300 points in the performance setting, AMD's Radeon HD 5570, about 4,500 points (GT 240: 5483, GTS 450: 9532). The real-time strategy game Anno 1404 is at high settings with 1680 x 1050 pixels still just as playable (28 fps), the racing game Colin McRae Dirt 2 runs in the same resolution anti-aliasing without similar. Crysis and Company require potent video cards.