GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and GeForce MX230 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
GeForce MX230
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
GM206
N17S-G0
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2016
February 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1190 MHz
1531 MHz
Core clock speed
1026 MHz
1519 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,828 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
256
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
57.12
25.31
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6612 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
105.8 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
5.2
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
Optimus
-
+