AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
3.3x more pipelines: 160 vs 48
2.3x better floating-point performance: 248.0 gflops vs 105.6 gflops
4.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 164 vs 38
Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 248 vs 216

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 January 2013 vs 15 June 2009
Pipelines	160 vs 48
Floating-point performance	248.0 gflops vs 105.6 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	164 vs 38
PassMark - G3D Mark	248 vs 216

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

Around 42% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 775 MHz
Around 29% higher texture fill rate: 8 GTexel / s vs 6.2 GTexel / s
Around 52% lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 35 Watt
7.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5644 vs 785

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 775 MHz
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s vs 6.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 35 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	5644 vs 785

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

164

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

248

216

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

785

5644

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M
PassMark - G2D Mark	164	38
PassMark - G3D Mark	248	216
Geekbench - OpenCL	785	5644
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	2.342
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	121.217
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.275
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	6.14
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	23.947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1727
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1727

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Caicos	GT216
Launch date	8 January 2013	15 June 2009
Place in performance rating	1595	1598
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	775 MHz	1100 MHz
Floating-point performance	248.0 gflops	105.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	160	48
Texture fill rate	6.2 GTexel / s	8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	370 million	486 million
CUDA cores		48
Gigaflops		158
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	Dual Link DVIVGADisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI		HDA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	11.1	10.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
Power management		8.0