GeForce GTX 780 vs GeForce GT 230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2256 additional rendering cores

GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +2564%

4156

GeForce GT 230

156

GeForce GTX 780

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 700

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

2304

Shading Units

48

192

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

G94B

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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