GeForce GT 230 and Radeon E9172 MXM - video card comparison
GeForce GT 230
Radeon E9172 MXM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
G94B
Lexa
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2009
October 2017
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
1219 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
1124 MHz
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
1,248 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
512
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
15.60
39.01
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
48 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131