GeForce GT 230 and Radeon HD 6550M - video card comparison
GeForce GT 230
Radeon HD 6550M
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G94B
Capilano-PRO
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2009
November 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
2,154 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
400
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
26 Watt
Texture fill rate
15.60
12.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A