GeForce 6800 GTO and GeForce MX230 - video card comparison

GeForce 6800 GTO

GeForce MX230

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

NV45

N17S-G0

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

April 2004

February 2019

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

-

1531 MHz

Core clock speed

350 MHz

1519 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

130 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

222 million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

256

Power consumption (TDP)

-

10 Watt

Texture fill rate

4.200

25.31

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

7000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

32 GB/s

48.06 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

2x DVI

No outputs

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

Optimus

-

+