GeForce GT 230 vs GeForce GTX 580
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 230 |
| 169 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 580 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 580 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 580
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 230 | | GeForce GTX 580 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | G94B (G94-300-B1) | vs | GF110 (GF110-375-A1) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 196 mm² | vs | 520 mm² |
| Transistors | 505 million | vs | 3,000 million |
| Shaders | 48 | vs | 512 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 16 |
| Core clock | 650 MHz | vs | 772 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 48 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 230 | | GeForce GTX 580 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1002 MHz
4008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1536 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 230 | | GeForce GTX 580 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 244 watts |
| Release Date | 12 Oct 2009 | vs | 9 Nov 2010 |
GeForce GT 230
10.40 GP/s
GeForce GTX 580
24.70 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 230
15.60 GT/s
GeForce GTX 580
49.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 230
57.60 GB/s
GeForce GTX 580
192.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 230
156.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 580
1581.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better