GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs GeForce GT 230 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1708MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)
1056 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+1539%
3935
GeForce GT 230 OEM
240
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Apr 2009
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
-
1708 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
9
SM Count
12
1152
Shading Units
96
72
TMUs
48
48
ROPs
12
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
1536 KB
L2 Cache
48 KB
Theoretical Performance
81.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.00 GTexel/s
61.49 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
240.0 GFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
75W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
G92B
GP106-300-A1
GPU Variant
G92-159-B1
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
55 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
260 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
6.1
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
