ATI Radeon HD 3410 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 3410 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Radeon HD 3410

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3410

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 519 MHz vs 500 MHz
3.8x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 75 Watt

Core clock speed	519 MHz vs 500 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

11.6x more texture fill rate: 24 GTexel / s vs 2.076 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 96 vs 40
5.8x better floating-point performance: 240 gflops vs 41.52 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 256 MB
Around 26% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 792 MHz

Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s vs 2.076 GTexel / s
Pipelines	96 vs 40
Floating-point performance	240 gflops vs 41.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 792 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 3410	NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Tesla
Code name	RV610	G92B
Launch date	7 May 2009	27 April 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	519 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	41.52 gflops	240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	40	96
Texture fill rate	2.076 GTexel / s	24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	180 million	754 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.34 GB / s	24 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	792 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR2