NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +1033%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2009

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1600

48

TMUs

80

12

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

48 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

24.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Cypress

G92-159-B1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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