GeForce GTX 660 OEM and GeForce MX230 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 660 OEM
GeForce MX230
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
GK104
N17S-G0
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2012
February 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
888 MHz
1531 MHz
Core clock speed
823 MHz
1519 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,046 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1152
256
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
85.25
25.31
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
5600 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
179.2 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
3.0
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
Optimus
-
+