
GeForce 9500 GT and GeForce MX230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9500 GT vs GeForce MX230
GeForce 9500 GT
162
GeForce MX230
1894
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce MX230
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
G96
N17S-G0
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
July 2008
February 2019
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1531 MHz
Core clock speed
550 MHz
1519 MHz
CUDA cores
32
-
Floating-point performance
89.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
256
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
10 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
8.8 billion/sec
25.31
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
Optimus
-
+