AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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 Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +3571%

5.728 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2009

Radeon Pro GCN

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2304

Shading Units

48

144

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

179.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

5.728 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.728 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

358.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G94B

Ellesmere Gemini GL

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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