
GeForce GT 230M and GeForce GTX 1660 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 230M vs GeForce GTX 1660
GeForce GT 230M
218
GeForce GTX 1660
12040
GeForce GT 230M
GeForce GTX 1660
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
N10P-GE
Turing TU116
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2009
March 2019
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1785 MHz
Core clock speed
500 MHz
1530 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
105.6 gflops
-
Gigaflops
158
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
486 million
6,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.000
157.1
Memory type
GDDR2, GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
Up to 1 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 600 (DDR2), Up to 800 (GDDR3), Up to 1066 (GDDR3) MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)
192.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVIVGADisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
HDA
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
7.5
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
Power management
8.0
-