NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

10400 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +14725%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

82

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

10496

Shading Units

96

328

TMUs

48

112

ROPs

12

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

G92B

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

Board Design

350W

TDP

75W

750 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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