AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT 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 7870 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 XT +1147%

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 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

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1536

Shading Units

96

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92B

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 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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