NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GT 230M sales 15 June 2009. This is a GT2xx architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. Up to 1 GB of GDDR2, GDDR3 memory clocked at Up to 600 (DDR2), Up to 800 (GDDR3), Up to 1066 (GDDR3) MHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3).

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 23 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.55% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about GeForce GT 230M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking1171
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money0.09
ArchitectureGT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code nameN10P-GE
Market segmentLaptop
Release date15 June 2009 (14 years old)
Current price$57 of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

GeForce GT 230M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GT 230M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores48of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
CUDA cores48
Core clock speed500 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors486 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)23 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate8.000of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance105.6 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)
Gigaflops158

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GT 230M's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizemedium sized
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GT 230M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amountUp to 1 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speedUp to 600 (DDR2), Up to 800 (GDDR3), Up to 1066 (GDDR3) MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)of 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GT 230M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsDual Link DVIVGADisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVI
HDMI+
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536
Audio input for HDMIHDA

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GT 230M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GT 230M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.1
OpenGL2.1of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GT 230M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GT 230M 0.55

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GT 230M 213

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GT 230M 2363

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GT 230M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 3−4

Full HD
Medium Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 8−9
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 6−7

Full HD
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 8−9
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
Metro Exodus 1−2
Red Dead Redemption 2 2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 6−7
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 3−4

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 3−4

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
Hitman 3 3−4
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 4−5

1440p
Ultra Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Far Cry 5 1−2
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2
Hitman 3 1−2
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9

4K
Ultra Preset

Far Cry 5 3−4
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GT 230M performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GT 230M is Radeon HD 8250, which is faster by 2% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

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Recommended processors

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