GeForce GT 230M vs ATI Radeon HD 3470

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated1214
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.67
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameRV620GT216
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date23 January 2008 (16 years ago)15 June 2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4048
Core clock speed800 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors181 million486 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)30 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate3.2008.000
Floating-point processing power0.064 TFLOPS0.1056 TFLOPS
Gigaflopsno data158
ROPs48
TMUs416

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
Bus supportno dataPCI-E 2.0
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MBUp to 1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed950 MHzUp to 600 (DDR2), Up to 800 (GDDR3), Up to 1066 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth15.2 GB/s16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoDual Link DVIVGADisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVI
HDMI-+
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536
Audio input for HDMIno dataHDA

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power managementno data8.0

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.32.1
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

ATI HD 3470 118
GT 230M 212
+79.7%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 January 2008 15 June 2009
Chip lithography 55 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 30 Watt 23 Watt

GT 230M has an age advantage of 1 year, a 37.5% more advanced lithography process, and 30.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3470 and GeForce GT 230M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3470 is a desktop card while GeForce GT 230M is a notebook one.


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