
Quadro FX 580 and GeForce GT 230M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro FX 580 vs GeForce GT 230M
Quadro FX 580
166
GeForce GT 230M
218
Quadro FX 580
GeForce GT 230M
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
G96C
N10P-GE
Market segment
Workstation
Laptop
Release date
April 2009
June 2009
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
450 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
72 gflops
105.6 gflops
Gigaflops
-
158
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
486 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
48
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
7.200
8.000
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
Up to 1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
Up to 600 (DDR2), Up to 800 (GDDR3), Up to 1066 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Dual Link DVIVGADisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVI
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
HDA
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
-
8.0