NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M 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 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +1457%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 200M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

105.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

Saturn

N10P-GE-A2

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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