GeForce GT 330 OEM vs Radeon HD 6230

GeForce GT 330 OEM
Memory: 256Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Feb 2010
GeForce GT 330 OEM
Radeon HD 6230
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Jul 2011
Radeon HD 6230

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 330 OEM

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6230

56 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GT 330 OEM .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 330 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 330 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 330 OEMRadeon HD 6230
GPU NameG92 ()vsCedar (Cedar LE)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs292 million
Shaders112vs80
Compute Units7vs2
Core clock500 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs16vs2
TMUs56vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 330 OEMRadeon HD 6230
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR2
Bus Width128 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed510 MHz
1020 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 330 OEMRadeon HD 6230
TDP75 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date2 Feb 2010vs2 Jul 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 330 OEM
    8.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6230
    1.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 330 OEM
    28.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6230
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 330 OEM
    16.30 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6230
    8.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 330 OEM
    280.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6230
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better