NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M videocard review

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

GeForce GT 230M videocard released by NVIDIA; release date: 15 June 2009. The videocard is designed for laptop-computers and based on Tesla 2.0 microarchitecture codenamed GT216.

Core clock speed - 1100 MHz. Texture fill rate - 8 GTexel / s. Pipelines - 48. Floating-point performance - 105.6 gflops. Manufacturing process technology - 40 nm. Transistors count - 486 million. Power consumption (TDP) - 23 Watt.

Memory type: GDDR2, GDDR3. Memory bus width - 128 Bit. Memory bandwidth - 16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3). Shared memory - 0.

Benchmarks

PassMark
G3D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
38579
212
PassMark
G2D Mark
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
1295
39
Geekbench
OpenCL
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
345616
5644
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225 Frames
1727 Frames
GFXBench 4.0
T-Rex
Top 1 GPU
This GPU
69225.000 Fps
1727.000 Fps
Name Value
PassMark - G3D Mark 212
PassMark - G2D Mark 39
Geekbench - OpenCL 5644
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 1727 Frames
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex 1727.000 Fps

Games performance

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

Low, 1024x76852.31
Medium, 1024x76830.82
High, 1024x76818.68

Quake 3 Arena - Timedemo (1999)

High, 1024x768454.90

Specifications (specs)

Essentials

Architecture Tesla 2.0
Code name GT216
Launch date 15 June 2009
Place in performance rating 1600
Type Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1100 MHz
CUDA cores 48
Floating-point performance 105.6 gflops
Gigaflops 158
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm
Pipelines 48
Texture fill rate 8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt
Transistor count 486 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI HDA
Display Connectors Dual Link DVIVGADisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 10.1
OpenGL 2.1

Memory

Memory bandwidth 16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory type GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
Power management 8.0