NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM 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 660 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock888MHz

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1104 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 OEM +1211%

2.046 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

823 MHz

Base Clock

-

888 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

48

96

TMUs

24

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.31 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

85.25 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.046 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

85.25 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G94B

GK104-200-KD-A2

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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