GeForce GTX 970 vs Radeon HD 6230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 6230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
1584 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 6230 's Advantages
Lower TDP (19W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+3669%
3920
Radeon HD 6230
104
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jul 2011
GeForce 900
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
667 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
10.67GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
1664
Shading Units
80
104
TMUs
8
56
ROPs
4
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.600 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.200 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.0 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
19W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
Park
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
Park S3 LP
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.292 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
59 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
