NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 680 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1440 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 +1254%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Apr 2009

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

1536

Shading Units

96

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

195W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G92B

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

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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