NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra vs AMD Radeon R5 230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (10.67GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce2 Ultra

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

Aug 2000

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 2

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

AGP 4x

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

230 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

64MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

7.360GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

-

Shading Units

160

8

TMUs

8

4

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

2.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

19W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x VGA

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

NV15

GPU Name

Caicos

GeForce2 Ultra

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Celsius

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

180 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.025 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

88 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

7.0

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

1.5

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

Shader Model

5.0

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