NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6990

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6990

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 6990 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990 +962%

2.55 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6990

Graphics Card

Apr 2009

Release Date

Mar 2011

GeForce 200

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1536

48

TMUs

96

12

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

48 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.56 GPixel/s

24.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

79.68 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.550 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

637.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Antilles

G92-159-B1

GPU Variant

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

389 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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