GeForce GTX 960 OEM and GeForce MX230 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GeForce MX230
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
GM206
N17S-G0
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
November 2015
February 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1201 MHz
1531 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
1519 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,460 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
256
Power consumption (TDP)
-
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
76.86
25.31
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7012 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
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
-
+