NVIDIA is launching the GeForce GT 430, and there are several sites with reviews that are available. The NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 is meant to be a sub-$100 graphics card. From the price, you can easily guess that it is not meant to be a powerful gaming card. Instead this graphics card is meant for some gaming, but is really for home theater, 3-D Blu-Ray support, and multi-monitor support. One feature that is lacking on NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 430 graphics card is that it does not support SLI. [H]ard|OCP gives a nice succinct overview of the GeForce GT 430:
The GeForce GT 430 is powered by the Fermi GF104 GPU and fully supports DX11. It features 585 million transistors built on a 40nm process, with a thermal design profile of 49 Watts. There are 96 CUDA cores, 16 texture units, and 4 ROP units. The memory bus consists of two 64-bit controllers with 1024MB of GDDR3 attached, for a theoretical maximum of 28.8GB/sec of memory bandwidth. The GPUs bilinear texture filtering rate is 11.2 billion texels per second.
NVIDIA’s reference GPU specification calls for the graphics processor to be clocked at 700MHz. The shader core’s clock speed is bound to the GPU core’s clock with a 2:1 ratio, brining the CUDA cores to 1.4GHz. The memory on the GeForce GT 430 comes with a reference speed of 900MHz, or 1.8GHz DDR.
GT 430 has one dual-link DVI-I port, an HDMI 1.4a port, and a 15-pin analog VGA port. It does not require an auxiliary power supply connector. HDMI 1.4a support is important, as it is version 1.4a which added 3D support to the HDMI standard. Any video card with an HDMI port of a version earlier than 1.4a will not support 3D HD video content, such as Blu-Ray 3D. There is support for 24-bit multi-channel audio up to 192 KHz, and lossless DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD as well.
Some of the sites that have posted reviews of the GeForce GT 430 are:
