NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 's Advantages

Boost Clock980MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 670 +1217%

2.634 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670

VS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2012

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 600

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

-

980 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

1344

Shading Units

160

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

109.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.634 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

109.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Caicos

GK104-325-A2

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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