NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 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 GTX 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (5GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +2704%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

6

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

24

40

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1280 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

G94B

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

200 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

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