GeForce GTX 960 and GeForce GT 230M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce GT 230M
GeForce GTX 960
6254
GeForce GT 230M
218
GeForce GTX 960
GeForce GT 230M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
GM206
N10P-GE
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2015
June 2009
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
400 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1127 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
1024
48
Floating-point performance
2,413 gflops
105.6 gflops
Gigaflops
-
158
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
486 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
48
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
72 billion/sec
8.000
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
Up to 1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
Up to 600 (DDR2), Up to 800 (GDDR3), Up to 1066 (GDDR3) MHz
Memory bandwidth
112 GB/s
16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Dual Link DVIVGADisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVI
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
HDA
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
6.4
4.1
Vulkan
+
N/A
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Power management
-
8.0