NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 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 GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
336 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
+578%
1.059 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 230
0.156 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Oct 2009
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
-
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
3
SM Count
6
384
Shading Units
48
24
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
156.0 GFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
75W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
G94B
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
G94-300-B1
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
196 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
