NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 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 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/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 6 GB GP104 +2702%

4.372 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

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

-

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

6

1280

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

136.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

68.32 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.372 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

136.6 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

GP104

GPU Name

G94B

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

314 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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