ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 PRO +60%

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

VS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

Release Date

Apr 2009

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

320

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

12

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

G92B

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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