GeForce GT 230 and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 230 vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce GT 230
333
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce GT 230
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G94B
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2009
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
650 MHz
777 MHz
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
320
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
15.60
12.43
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
72.06 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