GeForce GT 230M and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 230M vs GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce GT 230M
218
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
GeForce GT 230M
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
N10P-GE
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2009
January 2021
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
500 MHz
1320 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
105.6 gflops
-
Gigaflops
158
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
486 million
13,250 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
170 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.000
199.0
Memory type
GDDR2, GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
Up to 1 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 600 (DDR2), Up to 800 (GDDR3), Up to 1066 (GDDR3) MHz
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVIVGADisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVI
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
HDA
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
Power management
8.0
-