NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GT216GPU NameG70
N10P-GE-A2Model numberGF-7800-GT-A2
Tesla 2.0ArchitectureCurie
TSMCFoundryTSMC
40 nmProcess Size110 nm
486 millionTransistors302 million
100 mm²Die Size333 mm²

Graphics Card

Jun 15th, 2009Release DateAug 11th, 2005
GeForce 200MFamilyGeForce 7 PCIe
(7800)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
GeForce 100MPredecessorGeForce 6 PCIe
PCIe 2.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

1024 MBMemory Size256 MB
GDDR3Memory TypeGDDR3
128 bitMemory Bus256 bit
25.60 GB/sBandwidth32.00 GB/s

Performance

4.000 GPixel/sPixel fillrate6.400 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/sTexture fillrate8.000 GTexel/s

Clock Speeds

800 MHz
1600 Mbps effective
Memory Clock500 MHz
1000 Mbps effective
500 MHzGPU Clock400 MHz

Render Config

16TMUs20
8ROPs16

Board Design

23 WThermal design power (TDP)65 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI
1x S-Video

API support

11.1 (10_1)DirectX9.0c (9_3)
3.3OpenGL2.1
1.1OpenCLN/A
N/AVulkanN/A
4.1Shader Model3.0