AMD FireStream 9370 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FireStream 9370 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9370 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1552 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9370
+1592%
2.64 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 230
0.156 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2010
Release Date
Oct 2009
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1150 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
147.2GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
1600
Shading Units
48
80
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
26.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
66.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.640 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
156.0 GFLOPS
528.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
75W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
G94B
Cypress XT GL
GPU Variant
G94-300-B1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
196 mm²
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
