GeForce GT 230 and Radeon X1900 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 230 vs Radeon X1900 GT
GeForce GT 230
333
Radeon X1900 GT
149
GeForce GT 230
Radeon X1900 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
G94B
R580
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2009
May 2006
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
650 MHz
575 MHz
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
384 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
-
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
15.60
6.900
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
38.4 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