NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 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 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (1280GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

400 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition +598%

1.089 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

837 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1280MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

320bit

Memory Bus

256bit

133.9GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

14

SM Count

6

448

Shading Units

48

56

TMUs

24

40

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

640 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

34.05 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

1089 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

215W

TDP

75W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT215

GPU Name

G94B

GT215-400-A2

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.727 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

144 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

2.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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