14 DAY TRIAL // Even though Nvidia’s GeForce GT 430 certainly isn’t the fastest graphics card of the bunch, Inno3D has decided to pair this GPU with an impressive 4GB of video buffer and delivered to the world one of the most over designed GT 430’s out there.
Although the extra video memory installed won't definitely help the performances of the graphics card, Inno3D really prides itself with the fact that is one of the few manufacturers (probably the first) to come to market with such a solution.
Otherwise, the card doesn't seem to differ all that much from all the other GT 430 solutions that are available right now as it features a pretty simple printed circuit board layout as well as a not-so-impressive cooling solution.
Right below the plastic shroud, we find the 4GB of DDR3 memory manufactured by Micron that are connected to the core via a 128-bit wide memory bus.
As far as the operating speeds of the card are concerned, the GPU follows Nvidia's references as it comes clocked at 700MHz (1400MHz shaders), but the memory is significantly downclocked as Inno3D chose to run it at 666MHz.
This is 33MHz lower that Nvidia's stock clock and should limit the card's performances in games and other graphics intensive tasks.
The whole graphics card occupies only one PCI slot and its backplate features a dual-link DVI, HDMI and VGA video output.
Nvidia's GeForce GT 430 is based on the GF108 core that packs 96 CUDA cores, 16 texturing units, 4 ROP units and 585 million transistors.
No details regarding the availability or the prices of the card were revealed by Inno3D, but we don’t see any reasons why would anyone choose to pay extra for the 4GB of memory installed since this won’t have any impact on the GT 430’s performance.