Radeon HD 2900 XT and GeForce MX230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 2900 XT vs GeForce MX230
Radeon HD 2900 XT
679
GeForce MX230
1894
Radeon HD 2900 XT
GeForce MX230
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
R600
N17S-G0
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
May 2007
February 2019
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1531 MHz
Core clock speed
743 MHz
1519 MHz
Floating-point performance
475.5 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
720 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
256
Power consumption (TDP)
215 Watt
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.89
25.31
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
4 GB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1656 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
106.0 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
Optimus
-
+