AMD Radeon Sky 900 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 900

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 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 Sky 900 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1696 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 900 +1318%

3.405 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900

VS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Apr 2009

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

-

950 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1792

Shading Units

96

112

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

75W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92B

Orthrus

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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