Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand vs GeForce 9650M GS

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1235not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.70no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameG84Sun
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date13 March 2008 (17 years ago)1 March 2013 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores32320
Core clock speed625 MHz750 MHz
Boost clock speedno data825 MHz
Number of transistors289 million690 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)29 Wattno data
Texture fill rate10.0016.50
Floating-point processing power0.08 TFLOPS0.528 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs1620
L1 Cacheno data80 KB
L2 Cache32 KB128 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3DDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s14.4 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model4.05.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 March 2008 1 March 2013
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 80 nm 28 nm

R5 M230 Rebrand has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

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