
Radeon HD 2900 PRO and GeForce GT 230 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 2900 PRO
GeForce GT 230 OEM
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
R600
G92B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2007
April 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
600 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
384.0 gflops
240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
720 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
9.600
24.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
24 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A