NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (23W vs 110W)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 +298%

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 200M

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.56 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.56 GTexel/s

-

105.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

422.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

84.48 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

110W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

M88

N10P-GE-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

4.1

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