GeForce2 MX vs Radeon R5 M230

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1147	1600
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	Jet	NV11 A2
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	7 January 2014 (11 years ago)	28 June 2000 (25 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 cores	320	no data
Compute units	5	no data
Core clock speed	825 MHz	175 MHz
Boost clock speed	855 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	690 million	20 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	unknown	no data
Texture fill rate	17.10	0.7
Floating-point processing power	0.5472 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	2
TMUs	20	4
L1 Cache	80 KB	no data
L2 Cache	128 KB	no data

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).

Bus support	PCIe 3.0 x8	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 4x
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	DDR3	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	32 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	166 MHz
Memory bandwidth	16 GB/s	2.656 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 Connectors	No outputs	1x VGA
Eyefinity	+	-

Supported technologies

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

AppAcceleration	+	-
HD3D	+	-
PowerTune	+	-
DualGraphics	+	-
ZeroCore	+	-
Switchable graphics	+	-

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	DirectX® 11	7.0
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.4	1.2
OpenCL	Not Listed	N/A
Vulkan	-	N/A
Mantle	+	-

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

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FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	7 January 2014	28 June 2000
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	32 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	180 nm

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