Radeon R5 M230 and GeForce 8600M GT SLI - video card comparison

Radeon R5 M230

GeForce 8600M GT SLI

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

G8x (2007−2008)

GPU code name

Jet / Sun

NB8P-GS

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

January 2014

October 2007

Bus support

PCIe 3.0 x8

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

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Boost clock speed

855 MHz

-

Compute units

5

-

Core clock speed

855 MHz

475 MHz

Floating-point performance

547.2 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

690 million

598 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

320

64

Power consumption (TDP)

unknown

20 Watt

Texture fill rate

17.10

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Memory type

DDR3

GDDR3, GDDR2

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

700 MHz

Memory bandwidth

16 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

-

Eyefinity

+

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

10

Mantle

+

-

OpenCL

Not Listed

-

OpenGL

4.4

-

Shader Model

5.1

-

AppAcceleration

+

-

DualGraphics

1

-

Enduro

-

-

HD3D

+

-

PowerTune

+

-

Switchable graphics

1

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

+

-