NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 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 RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

3488 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +5208%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 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

500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

12

3584

Shading Units

96

112

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

12

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

195W

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

G92B

GA104

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

260 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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