Review: Digital Alliance GT 430 – The Low Profile Fermi

DiRT 2

Setting : DirectX 11; Quality Preset – Ultra

Under the “Ultra” graphics preset, GT 430 managed to keep the frame rate well above 30 FPS in this racing game.

Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Vantage

Setting : P-Rating (Default)

Here we can clearly the wide performance gap between the GT 430 and GTS 450.

Unigine Heaven 2.1

Setting : DirectX 11; AF x16

The tessellation-intensive Unigine Heaven was too much for the GT 430.

MediaShow Espresso

Setting : Hardware Acceleration On

When it comes to video transcoding, all graphics cards in our test were equally fast.

Power Consumption

GT 430’s consumes the least amount of power among the cards in our test. Of course, the main advantage of less processing power is reduced power consumption.