AMD Radeon HD 6990M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

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AMD Radeon HD 6990M NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6990M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1072 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990M +1411%

1.602 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M

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GeForce GT 230M

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jun 2009

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

14

Compute Units

-

1120

Shading Units

48

56

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

22.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

40.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.602 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

105.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GT216

Blackcomb XTX (216-0811030)

GPU Variant

N10P-GE-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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