
GeForce GT 230M and Radeon RX 490M - video card comparison
GeForce GT 230M
Radeon RX 490M
Architecture
GT2xx (2009−2012)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
N10P-GE
Polaris
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2009
August 2016
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Core clock speed
500 MHz
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CUDA cores
48
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Floating-point performance
105.6 gflops
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Gigaflops
158
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
486 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
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Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
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Texture fill rate
8.000
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Memory type
GDDR2, GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
Up to 1 GB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory clock speed
Up to 600 (DDR2), Up to 800 (GDDR3), Up to 1066 (GDDR3) MHz
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Memory bandwidth
16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
Dual Link DVIVGADisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVI
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HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
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Audio input for HDMI
HDA
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DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
12
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
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OpenGL
2.1
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Shader Model
4.1
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Vulkan
N/A
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Power management
8.0
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