Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce MX230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce MX230
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce MX230
1894
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce MX230
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Neptune
N17S-G0
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
February 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1531 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1519 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
256
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
25.31
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
Optimus
-
+