NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated606
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for moneyno data1.64
ArchitectureTerascale 1 (2008−2010)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameM97-XTN17S-G0
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 March 2009 (15 years old)20 February 2019 (5 years old)
Current priceno data$1221
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores640256
Core clock speed650 MHz1519 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1531 MHz
Number of transistors826 million1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data10 Watt
Texture fill rate20.8025.31
Floating-point performance832.0 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and GeForce MX230 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 sizelargemedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

Memory

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s48.06 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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 outputsNo outputs

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimusno data+

API support

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.16.4
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDAno data+

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 3 March 2009 20 February 2019
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm

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