NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 7950 GT AGP and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Oct 2009
GeForce 7 AGP
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
SM Count
6
-
Shading Units
48
24
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
8.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
12.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
156.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
65W
TDP
75W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x Molex
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G71
GPU Name
G94B
G71-GT2-H-N-A2
GPU Variant
G94-300-B1
Curie
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.278 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
196 mm²
Die Size
196 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
