NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX230 and NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM 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

NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 2 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 1519 MHz vs 589 MHz
48x more pipelines: 384 vs 8
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
3.1x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 31 Watt
7.5x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 800 MHz
14.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1830 vs 126

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 February 2019 vs 26 November 2009
Core clock speed	1519 MHz vs 589 MHz
Pipelines	384 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 31 Watt
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1830 vs 126

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 309 vs 214

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	309 vs 214

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX230
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1830

126

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

214

309

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX230	NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	1830	126
PassMark - G2D Mark	214	309
Geekbench - OpenCL	6740
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	NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GP108	GT218
Launch date	21 February 2019	26 November 2009
Place in performance rating	981	555
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1582 MHz
Core clock speed	1519 MHz	589 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	8
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt	31 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	260 million
Floating-point performance		22.432 gflops
Texture fill rate		2.356 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		168 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount		512 MB
Memory bandwidth		6.4 GB / s