Radeon R5 230 OEM vs GeForce GTS 450
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 months late
Lower TDP (19W vs 106W)
GeForce GTS 450 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.73GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R5 230 OEM
200
GeForce GTS 450
+200%
601
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Sep 2010
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
667 MHz
Memory Clock
902 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
10.67GB/s
Bandwidth
57.73GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
4
160
Shading Units
192
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
128 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.500 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.264 GPixel/s
5.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.06 GTexel/s
200.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
601.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
50.11 GFLOPS
Board Design
19W
TDP
106W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Caicos
GPU Name
GF106
Caicos PRO
GPU Variant
GF106-250-KA-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.37 billion
Transistors
1.17 billion
67 mm²
Die Size
238 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
5.0
Shader Model
5.1
