ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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 5870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 +1033%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Apr 2009

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1600

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

188W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G92B

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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