
GeForce GT 230M and GeForce 9650M GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 230M vs GeForce 9650M GT
GeForce GT 230M
218
GeForce 9650M GT
141
GeForce GT 230M
GeForce 9650M GT
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
N10P-GE
NB9P-GT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2009
August 2008
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-II
Core clock speed
500 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
48
32
Floating-point performance
105.6 gflops
84.8 gflops
Gigaflops
158
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
486 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
32
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.000
8.800
Memory type
GDDR2, GDDR3
GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
Up to 1 GB
256 MB
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
1920x1200
Audio input for HDMI
HDA
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
+
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
-