GeForce GT 230 vs Radeon HD 6290
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 230 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 6290 |
| 56 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GT 230 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GT 230
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 230 | | Radeon HD 6290 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | G94B (G94-300-B1) | vs | Cedar (Cedar LE) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 196 mm² | vs | 59 mm² |
| Transistors | 505 million | vs | 292 million |
| Shaders | 48 | vs | 80 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 650 MHz | vs | 650 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 230 | | Radeon HD 6290 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 230 | | Radeon HD 6290 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 19 watts |
| Release Date | 12 Oct 2009 | vs | 4 Dec 2011 |
GeForce GT 230
10.40 GP/s
Radeon HD 6290
2.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 230
15.60 GT/s
Radeon HD 6290
5.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 230
57.60 GB/s
Radeon HD 6290
12.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 230
156.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6290
104.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better