NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M vs AMD Radeon E8860

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

AMD Radeon E8860

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M and 2GB VRAM Radeon E8860 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 37W)

AMD Radeon E8860 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock625MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

592 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

Radeon E8860 +654%

0.8 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

VS

Radeon E8860

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 200M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

575 MHz

-

Boost Clock

625 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

105.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

50.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

37W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x VGA

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

Venus

N10P-GE-A2

GPU Variant

Venus MCM

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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