GeForce GT 230 and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 230
HD Graphics 2500
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code name
G94B
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2009
April 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
6
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
15.60
6.900
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80