NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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

Released 11 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

4816 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti +10284%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

6

-

Compute Units

-

4864

Shading Units

48

152

TMUs

24

80

ROPs

16

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

G94B

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

75W

550 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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