Radeon 8500 X4 and GeForce MX230 - video card comparison

Radeon 8500 X4

GeForce MX230

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

R200

N17S-G0

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

-

February 2019

Interface

PCI-X

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

-

1531 MHz

Core clock speed

250 MHz

1519 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

60 million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

256

Power consumption (TDP)

92 Watt

10 Watt

Texture fill rate

2.000

25.31

Memory type

DDR

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

500 MBps

7000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

4 GB/s

48.06 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

2x DVI

No outputs

DirectX

8.1

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

+

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

1.3

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

Optimus

-

+