NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1616 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +2412%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

1664

Shading Units

48

104

TMUs

24

56

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

148W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G94B

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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