Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 and GeForce MX230 - video card comparison
Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
GeForce MX230
Architecture
RV6xx (2007−2010)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
M88-XT CF
N17S-G0
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
September 2008
February 2019
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
1531 MHz
Core clock speed
660 MHz
1519 MHz
Floating-point performance
2x 422.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
256
Power consumption (TDP)
110 Watt
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.56
25.31
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
850 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
54.4 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.1
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
Optimus
-
+