NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M 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 50W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

912 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M +950%

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

VS

Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 200M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

960

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

105.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

23W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N10P-GE-A2

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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