AMD Radeon Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, API support, Memory, Technologies, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL.

AMD Radeon Vega 7

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 7

9.3x more pipelines: 448 vs 48
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 55 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB

Pipelines	448 vs 48
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 7
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GT 230
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1255
PassMark - G3D Mark		323
PassMark - G2D Mark		70
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3233
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3233
Geekbench - OpenCL		6073

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GT 230
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Tesla
Code name	Renoir	G94B
Launch date	Q1'2020	12 October 2009
Place in performance rating	1422	1419
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$43.99
Price now		$43.99
Value for money (0-100)		13.94
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	448	48
Core clock speed		650 MHz
Floating-point performance		156 gflops
Texture fill rate		15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Transistor count		505 million
Video outputs and ports
Number of simultaneous displays	3
Display Connectors		No outputs
API support
DirectX	12.1	10.0
OpenGL		3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth		57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1800 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Technologies
4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None