Radeon HD 6950M and GeForce MX230 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6950M
GeForce MX230
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Blackcomb Pro
N17S-G0
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
February 2019
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
-
1531 MHz
Core clock speed
580 MHz
1519 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,113.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
256
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.84
25.31
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
Optimus
-
+