NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 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 460 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (768GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 160W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460 +481%

0.907 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Jul 2010

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

86.40GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

7

SM Count

6

336

Shading Units

48

56

TMUs

24

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.450 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

37.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

907.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

75.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

160W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

G94B

GF104-300-KB-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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