NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock930MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM +296%

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2009

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 200

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

930 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/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

14.88 GPixel/s

24.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G92-159-B1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

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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