NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 320MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GTS 320 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.36GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 320GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 143W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 +46%

0.228 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800 GTS 320

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Feb 2007

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 8

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

792 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

320MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

63.36GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

6

96

Shading Units

48

24

TMUs

24

20

ROPs

16

-

80 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

24.62 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

228.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

143W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G80

GPU Name

G94B

G80-100-K0-A2

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

90 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.681 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

484 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1 (1.0)

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.0

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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