AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7850

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 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 7850 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

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

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850 +633%

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

VS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Apr 2009

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1024

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

75W

300 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

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G92B

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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