AMD Radeon HD 7790 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7790

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7790 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 7790 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

848 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7790 +1048%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7790

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Oct 2009

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

896

Shading Units

48

56

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

85W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G94B

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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