Radeon 780M vs GeForce GT 230 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated302
Place by popularitynot in top-10049
Power efficiencyno data83.73
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameG92BPhoenix
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date27 April 2009 (15 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores96768
Core clock speed500 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2700 MHz
Number of transistors754 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate24.00129.6
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPS8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs1232
TMUs4848
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1536 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width192 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth24 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.8
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.1
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 April 2009 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 55 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 780M has an age advantage of 13 years, a 1275% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 230 OEM and Radeon 780M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 230 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon 780M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM
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AMD Radeon 780M
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