GeForce GT 230M and GeForce GT 120M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 230M vs GeForce GT 120M
GeForce GT 230M
218
GeForce GT 120M
154
GeForce GT 230M
GeForce GT 120M
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
N10P-GE
N10P-GV1
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2009
February 2009
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Core clock speed
500 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
105.6 gflops
80 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
8.000
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
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)
16 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
-