GeForce GT 230M and GeForce GT 520M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 230M vs GeForce GT 520M
GeForce GT 230M
218
GeForce GT 520M
289
GeForce GT 230M
GeForce GT 520M
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
N10P-GE
N12P-GP/LV
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2009
January 2011
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
500 MHz
740 / 600 MHz
CUDA cores
48
48
Floating-point performance
105.6 gflops
129.02 gflops
Gigaflops
158
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
486 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
48
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
12 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.000
5.9 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR2, GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
Up to 1 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 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)
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)
12 API
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.5
Shader Model
4.1
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
-
+
Power management
8.0
-