NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce MX230 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce MX230

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • 3.4x more core clock speed: 1519 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
  • 5.9x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 59 Watt
  • 7.1x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • 44.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1834 vs 41
  • Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 216 vs 170
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 21 February 2019 vs 23 October 2003
Core clock speed 1519 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 59 Watt
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 850 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1834 vs 41
PassMark - G2D Mark 216 vs 170

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce MX230
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1834
41
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
216
170
Name NVIDIA GeForce MX230 NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark 1834 41
PassMark - G2D Mark 216 170
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
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 5900 Ultra

Essentials

Architecture Pascal Rankine
Code name GP108 NV35
Launch date 21 February 2019 23 October 2003
Place in performance rating 1014 1011
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $499

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1582 MHz
Core clock speed 1519 MHz 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 384
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt 59 Watt
Transistor count 1,800 million 135 million
Texture fill rate 1.8 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 1x Molex
Length 218 mm

API support

DirectX 12.0 9.0a
OpenGL 4.6 1.5 (2.1)

Memory

Memory bus width 64 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 850 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 27.2 GB / s