NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM 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)

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +241%

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2009

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

12

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

24.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

55W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G92-159-B1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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