Radeon HD 4650 vs GeForce GT 230

Radeon HD 4650
Memory: 256Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Sep 2008
Radeon HD 4650
GeForce GT 230
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce GT 230

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4650

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 230

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Radeon HD 4650

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4650

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4650GeForce GT 230
GPU NameRV730 (RV730 PRO)vsG94B (G94-300-B1)
Fab Process55 nmvs55 nm
Die Size146 mm²vs196 mm²
Transistors514 millionvs505 million
Shaders320vs48
Compute Units4vs3
Core clock600 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4650GeForce GT 230
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size256 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4650GeForce GT 230
TDP48 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date10 Sep 2008vs12 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4650
    4.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 230
    10.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4650
    19.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 230
    15.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4650
    22.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 230
    57.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4650
    384.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 230
    156.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better