GeForce GT 230 and GeForce GTX 950 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GT 230
GeForce GTX 950 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
G94B
GM206S
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2009
2016
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1203 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
937 MHz
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
1,946 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
15.60
76.99
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
5 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
1.1
5.2
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3