GeForce GT 230 and Radeon HD 3730 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 230
Radeon HD 3730
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G94B
RV635
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2009
October 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
650 MHz
722 MHz
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
173.28 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
378 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
120
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
15.60
5.776
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
792 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
12.67 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A