ATI Radeon HD 3550 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3550

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 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 3550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

56 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM +400%

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

VS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2008

Release Date

Apr 2009

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

396 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1536MB

DDR2

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

6.336GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

40

Shading Units

96

4

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

12

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.376 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

2.376 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

47.52 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DisplayPort

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV620

GPU Name

G92B

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.181 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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