NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 +1722%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

VS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

Apr 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

500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

48

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

G92B

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

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 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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