NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 260 's Advantages

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 +205%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

6

192

Shading Units

48

64

TMUs

24

28

ROPs

16

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

G94B

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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