ATI FireGL V8600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

ATI FireGL V8600

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 159W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600 +182%

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Oct 2009

FireGL

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

868 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

320

Shading Units

48

16

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

159W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

G94B

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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