AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

912 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 127W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +853%

1.488 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Oct 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

960

Shading Units

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

127W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G94B

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

196 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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