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ASUS GeForce GT 430 - Can You Really Play Games with Budget Cards?

By Kenny Yeo - 11 Oct 2010

Unigine "Heaven" 2.1 Results

Unigine "Heaven" 2.1 Results

On Unigine’s “Heaven” benchmark and with tessellation enabled, the GeForce GT 430 fought back against the Radeon HD 5570. Overall, with tessellation enabled, the GeForce GT 430 was about 10% quicker than the Radeon HD 5570; but against the faster Radeon HD 5670, it had no answer. Still, the sad thing is that even with the shader quality set to “low” none of the cards managed respectable frame rates and were well below the playable threshold of 30fps.

When we reverted to DirectX 10, we found that the GeForce GT 430 came in nicely between the GeForce GT 240 and GT 220. And it was almost on a par when compared to the Radeon HD 5570; the HD 5670 was much quicker as usual. But with anti-aliasing enabled, the advantage went to the Radeon cards, despite the GeForce GT 430 having twice the framebuffer of the Radeon HD 5570 and more ROP processing units. Clearly, the raster operating units on the GeForce GT 430 is not as efficient than those on the Radeon HD 5570 (or the NVIDIA drivers could use some work). 

DirectX 11 Results

DirectX 10 Results

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7.5
  • Performance 7.5
  • Features 7.5
  • Value 7
The Good
Compact size
Decent overclockability
Runs cool and quiet
The Bad
Reference clock speeds
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