ATI Radeon X550 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

ATI Radeon X550 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Radeon X550 XT and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X550 XT

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Oct 2009

Radeon R300

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

9.600GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

-

Shading Units

48

4

TMUs

24

4

ROPs

16

-

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

1.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV410

GPU Name

G94B

-

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

R400

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

110 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.12 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

156 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0b (9_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

2.0

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

-

Shader Model

4.0

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