Radeon HD 7850 and GeForce GT 230 OEM - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7850

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

Pitcairn

G92B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2012

April 2009

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1000 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

500 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,761 gflops

240 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

754 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

96

Power consumption (TDP)

130 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

55.04

24.00

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR2

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

24 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

No outputs

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

12

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

-

1.1

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.0

Vulkan

+

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-