AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +1478%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Apr 2009

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

2048

Shading Units

96

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92B

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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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