NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX230 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 1519 MHz vs 675 MHz
4.8x more pipelines: 384 vs 80
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
Around 10% lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 11 Watt
3.8x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1600 MHz
8.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1834 vs 214
11.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3356 vs 299
11.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3356 vs 299

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 February 2019 vs 7 January 2010
Core clock speed	1519 MHz vs 675 MHz
Pipelines	384 vs 80
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 11 Watt
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1834 vs 214
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356 vs 299
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356 vs 299

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450

Around 48% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 320 vs 216

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	320 vs 216

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX230
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1834

214

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

216

320

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3356

299

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3356

299

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX230	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450
PassMark - G3D Mark	1834	214
PassMark - G2D Mark	216	320
Geekbench - OpenCL	6501
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	21.591
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	445.82
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.736
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	32.43
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	102.234
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2680
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356	299
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2680
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356	299

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX230	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	TeraScale 2
Code name	GP108	Park
Launch date	21 February 2019	7 January 2010
Place in performance rating	1014	1017
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1582 MHz
Core clock speed	1519 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	80
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	11 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	292 million
Floating-point performance		108 gflops
Texture fill rate		5.4 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		12.8 GB / s
Shared memory		0