Radeon HD 4700 vs GeForce GT 230 OEM

Radeon HD 4700
Memory: 512Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Feb 2010
Radeon HD 4700
GeForce GT 230 OEM
Memory: 1536Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Oct 2009
GeForce GT 230 OEM
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 4700

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 OEM

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 4700

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 4700

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 4700GeForce GT 230 OEM
GPU NameRV730 (RV730 XT)vsG92B (G92-250-B1)
Fab Process55 nmvs55 nm
Die Size146 mm²vs260 mm²
Transistors514 millionvs754 million
Shaders320vs96
Compute Units4vs6
Core clock600 MHzvs500 MHz
ROPs8vs12
TMUs32vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 4700GeForce GT 230 OEM
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR2
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed400 MHz
800 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1536 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 4700GeForce GT 230 OEM
TDP50 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date11 Feb 2010vs12 Oct 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4700
    4.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 230 OEM
    6.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 4700
    19.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 230 OEM
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 4700
    12.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 230 OEM
    24.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 4700
    384.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 230 OEM
    240.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better