GeForce GT 230 and Radeon X1800 XT - video card comparison
GeForce GT 230
Radeon X1800 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
G94B
R520
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2009
October 2005
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
650 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
321 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
-
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
113 Watt
Texture fill rate
15.60
9.600
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A