FireGL V8650 vs GeForce GT 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FireGL V8650 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
272 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 230 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8650
+182%
440
GeForce GT 230
156
Graphics Card
Aug 2007
Release Date
Oct 2009
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
868 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
320
Shading Units
48
16
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
16
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
156.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
75W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
G94B
R600 V8650
(215RGIDKA13FG)
GPU Variant
G94-300-B1
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
196 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
