AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

336 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +482%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2009

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

32bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

384

Shading Units

48

24

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G94B

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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