GeForce GT 230M and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 230M
HD Graphics 2500
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code name
N10P-GE
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2009
April 2012
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Boost clock speed
-
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
500 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
105.6 gflops
13.8 gflops
Gigaflops
158
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
486 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
6
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
8.000
6.900
Memory type
GDDR2, GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
Up to 1 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 600 (DDR2), Up to 800 (GDDR3), Up to 1066 (GDDR3) MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)
-
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 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80
Power management
8.0
-