GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs GeForce GT 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 13 years late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
4816 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 230 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+10284%
16200
GeForce GT 230
156
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Oct 2009
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
38
SM Count
6
4864
Shading Units
48
152
TMUs
24
80
ROPs
16
152
Tensor Cores
-
38
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
156.0 GFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
75W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
G94B
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
G94-300-B1
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
55 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
196 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
1.1
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
