NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +905%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230 OEM

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

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GeForce GT 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Apr 2009

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

G92B

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

G92-159-B1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

260 mm²

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 Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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