NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs ATI Radeon 9500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX230 and ATI Radeon 9500 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 Radeon 9500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 11 month(s) later
5.5x more core clock speed: 1519 MHz vs 275 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 150 nm
Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 12 Watt
11.1x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 540 MHz
51.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1839 vs 36
Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 217 vs 173

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 February 2019 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	1519 MHz vs 275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 150 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 12 Watt
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 540 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1839 vs 36
PassMark - G2D Mark	217 vs 173

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX230
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1839

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

217

173

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX230	ATI Radeon 9500
PassMark - G3D Mark	1839	36
PassMark - G2D Mark	217	173
Geekbench - OpenCL	6691
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2680
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce MX230	ATI Radeon 9500
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Rage 8
Code name	GP108	R300
Launch date	21 February 2019	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1005	988
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1582 MHz
Core clock speed	1519 MHz	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	384
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	12 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	110 million
Texture fill rate		1.1 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0	9.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	540 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount		64 MB
Memory bandwidth		17.28 GB / s