NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 LE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX230 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 LE 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 FX 5200 LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 11 month(s) later
6.1x more core clock speed: 1519 MHz vs 250 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 150 nm
18.1x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 332 MHz
262x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1834 vs 7
Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 216 vs 170

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	21 February 2019 vs 17 March 2003
Core clock speed	1519 MHz vs 250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 150 nm
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 332 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1834 vs 7
PassMark - G2D Mark	216 vs 170

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX230
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 LE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1834

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

216

170

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX230	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 LE
PassMark - G3D Mark	1834	7
PassMark - G2D Mark	216	170
Geekbench - OpenCL	6512
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 FX 5200 LE
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Rankine
Code name	GP108	NV34 A2
Launch date	21 February 2019	17 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1013	1011
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1582 MHz
Core clock speed	1519 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	384
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	45 million
Texture fill rate		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	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	332 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		2.656 GB / s