GeForce GT 230M and GeForce 8600M GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 230M vs GeForce 8600M GT
GeForce GT 230M
218
GeForce 8600M GT
92
GeForce GT 230M
GeForce 8600M GT
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
N10P-GE
G84M
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2009
June 2007
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Core clock speed
500 MHz
475 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
105.6 gflops
60.8 gflops
Gigaflops
158
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
486 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
32
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.000
7.600
Memory type
GDDR2, GDDR3
GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
Up to 1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 600 (DDR2), Up to 800 (GDDR3), Up to 1066 (GDDR3) MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVIVGADisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVI
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
HDA
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Power management
8.0
-