AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 RX 480 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

2208 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +2330%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Apr 2009

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

96

144

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G92B

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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