AMD Radeon E8870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

VS

AMD Radeon E8870

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8870 +1349%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

VS

GeForce GT 230M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jun 2009

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

768

Shading Units

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

105.6 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GT216

Saturn PRO

GPU Variant

N10P-GE-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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