FirePro S7000 vs GeForce GT 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro S7000 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FirePro S7000 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1232 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 230 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro S7000
+1458%
2432
GeForce GT 230
156
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
Oct 2009
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
1280
Shading Units
48
80
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
30.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
76.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
2.432 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
156.0 GFLOPS
152.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
75W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
G94B
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
GPU Variant
G94-300-B1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
196 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0