GeForce GT 230 OEM vs Radeon R9 370 1024SP

GeForce GT 230 OEM
Memory: 1536Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce GT 230 OEM
Radeon R9 370 1024SP
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 370 1024SP
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 230 OEM

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 370 1024SP .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 370 1024SP

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 370 1024SP

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 370 1024SP

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 230 OEMRadeon R9 370 1024SP
GPU NameG92B (G92-250-B1)vsTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size260 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders96vs1024
Compute Units6vs16
Core clock500 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs12vs32
TMUs48vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 230 OEMRadeon R9 370 1024SP
Memory TypeDDR2vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size1536 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 230 OEMRadeon R9 370 1024SP
TDP75 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date12 Oct 2009vs12 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 230 OEM
    6.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370 1024SP
    31.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 230 OEM
    24.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370 1024SP
    62.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 230 OEM
    24.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370 1024SP
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 230 OEM
    240.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370 1024SP
    1996.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better