ATI FirePro V7900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FirePro V7900 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro V7900 +1089%

1.856 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

FirePro V7900

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Oct 2009

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.856 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

G94B

Cayman PRO GL

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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