NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 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 1070 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1683MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1872 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1070 +4042%

6.463 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

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

-

1683 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.3GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

15

SM Count

6

1920

Shading Units

48

120

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

202.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

101.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.463 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

202.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

G94B

GP104-200-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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