GeForce GT 230 vs Radeon HD 7990
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 230 |
300 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7990 . |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7990 |
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
Supports Mantle |
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7990
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 230 | | Radeon HD 7990 | |
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GPU Name | G94B (G94-300-B1) | vs | Malta () |
Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 196 mm² | vs | 365 mm² |
Transistors | 505 million | vs | 4,313 million |
Shaders | 48 | vs | 2048 |
Compute Units | 3 | vs | 32 |
Core clock | 650 MHz | vs | 950 MHz |
ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 24 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 230 | | Radeon HD 7990 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 384 bit x2 |
Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 230 | | Radeon HD 7990 | |
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TDP | 75 watts | vs | 375 watts |
Release Date | 12 Oct 2009 | vs | 24 Apr 2013 |
GeForce GT 230
10.40 GP/s
Radeon HD 7990
60.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 230
15.60 GT/s
Radeon HD 7990
244.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 230
57.60 GB/s
Radeon HD 7990
576.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 230
156.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7990
7782.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better