AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +3510%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Oct 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2816

Shading Units

48

176

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

75W

950 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G94B

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

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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