GeForce GT 230M and GeForce 9600M GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 230M vs GeForce 9600M GS
GeForce GT 230M
218
GeForce 9600M GS
122
GeForce GT 230M
GeForce 9600M GS
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
N10P-GE
NB9P-GE
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2009
June 2008
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Core clock speed
500 MHz
103 MHz
CUDA cores
48
32
Floating-point performance
105.6 gflops
68.8 gflops
Gigaflops
158
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
486 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
32
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.000
6.880
Memory type
GDDR2, GDDR3
GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
Up to 1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 600 (DDR2), Up to 800 (GDDR3), Up to 1066 (GDDR3) MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)
25.6 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
-