AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 R9 290 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

2464 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +1920%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

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GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Apr 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

96

160

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G92B

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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