AMD Radeon HD 6930 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6930

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6930 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 6930 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 186W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6930 +1130%

1.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6930

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Oct 2009

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

60.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

1.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

480.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

186W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

G94B

Cayman CE (215-0807105)

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

389 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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