GeForce GT 230 and Radeon HD 5550 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 230 vs Radeon HD 5550
GeForce GT 230
333
Radeon HD 5550
387
GeForce GT 230
Radeon HD 5550
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G94B
Redwood
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2009
February 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
650 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
627 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
320
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
39 Watt
Texture fill rate
15.60
8.800
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A