Radeon HD 3850 X2 and GeForce GT 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 X2 vs GeForce GT 230
Radeon HD 3850 X2
847
GeForce GT 230
333
Radeon HD 3850 X2
GeForce GT 230
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV670
G94B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2008
October 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
669 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 428.2 gflops
156 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
48
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.70
15.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1656 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
52.99 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A