AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 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 RX 560 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

976 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 +1573%

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2009

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

-

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

48

64

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

G94B

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

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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