GeForce 720M and GeForce MX230 - video card comparison
GeForce 720M
GeForce MX230
Architecture
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
GF117
N17S-G0
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2013
February 2019
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
1531 MHz
Core clock speed
625 MHz
1519 MHz
Floating-point performance
240.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
256
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.00
25.31
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
2.1
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
Optimus
-
+