Radeon R9 295X2 vs GeForce GT 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
2768 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 230 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+3575%
5733
GeForce GT 230
156
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Oct 2009
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
2816
Shading Units
48
176
TMUs
24
64
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
156.0 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
500W
TDP
75W
900 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
G94B
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
G94-300-B1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
196 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.3
Shader Model
4.0
