NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M vs AMD Radeon HD 8670A

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

AMD Radeon HD 8670A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8670A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (23W vs 45W)

AMD Radeon HD 8670A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

336 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8670A +334%

0.461 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

VS

Radeon HD 8670A

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Feb 2013

GeForce 200M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

24

8

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

105.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

460.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

28.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

Mars

N10P-GE-A2

GPU Variant

Mars XT

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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