NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M vs ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M and ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GT216GPU NameR480
N10P-GE-A2Model numberR480 XT
(215RBHAGA11F)
Tesla 2.0ArchitectureR400
TSMCFoundryTSMC
40 nmProcess Size130 nm
486 millionTransistors160 million
100 mm²Die Size297 mm²

Graphics Card

Jun 15th, 2009Release DateSep 10th, 2006
GeForce 200MFamilyRadeon R400 PCIe
(X850)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
GeForce 100MPredecessorRadeon R300
PCIe 2.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

1024 MBMemory Size256 MB
GDDR3Memory TypeGDDR3
128 bitMemory Bus256 bit
25.60 GB/sBandwidth34.56 GB/s

Performance

4.000 GPixel/sPixel fillrate8.320 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/sTexture fillrate8.320 GTexel/s

Clock Speeds

800 MHz
1600 Mbps effective
Memory Clock540 MHz
1080 Mbps effective
500 MHzGPU Clock520 MHz

Render Config

16TMUs16
8ROPs16

Board Design

23 WThermal design power (TDP)unknown
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI

API support

11.1 (10_1)DirectX9.0b (9_2)
3.3OpenGL2.1
1.1OpenCLN/A
N/AVulkanN/A