NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 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 RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

3536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +8066%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

6

3584

Shading Units

48

112

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

75W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

G94B

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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