NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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

Released 13 years late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/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 8 GB +8066%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

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

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

6

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

48

112

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 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)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G94B

GA106-302-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

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 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

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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