NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 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 1660 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +1994%

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2009

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

-

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

96

88

TMUs

48

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

G92B

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

Turing

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-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

7.5

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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