NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock758MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1296 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680M +1822%

2.038 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M

VS

GeForce GT 230M

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 600M

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

719 MHz

Base Clock

-

758 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

48

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.22 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

84.90 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.038 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

105.6 GFLOPS

84.90 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GT216

N13E-GTX-A2

GPU Variant

N10P-GE-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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