GeForce GT 230 vs Radeon HD 7990

GeForce GT 230
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce GT 230
Radeon HD 7990
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Apr 2013
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7990

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7990

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 230Radeon HD 7990
GPU NameG94B (G94-300-B1)vsMalta ()
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size196 mm²vs365 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders48vs2048
Compute Units3vs32
Core clock650 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs24vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 230Radeon HD 7990
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 230Radeon HD 7990
TDP75 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date12 Oct 2009vs24 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 230
    10.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    60.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 230
    15.60 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    244.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 230
    57.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    576.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 230
    156.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7990
    7782.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better