AMD Radeon R5 230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 230 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 230

• Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• Around 25% higher pipelines: 160 vs 128
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
• 7.4x lower typical power consumption: 19 Watt vs 141 Watt
• 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
• 3.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 255 vs 83

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

• 9.4x more texture fill rate: 47.2 billion / sec vs 5 GTexel / s
• 2.4x better floating-point performance: 470.0 gflops vs 200.0 gflops
• 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 494 vs 222
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3309 vs 2480
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3309 vs 2480

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 230
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	222 494
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	255 83
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2480 3309
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2480 3309

Compare specifications (specs)