AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2 +740%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

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GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Apr 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

14

Compute Units

-

1120

Shading Units

96

56

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G92B

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

75W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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