Radeon R9 290 and GeForce GT 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce GT 230
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GT 230
333
Radeon R9 290
GeForce GT 230
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Hawaii
G94B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
October 2009
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Core clock speed
947 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
156 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
48
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
151.5
15.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
6.3
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A