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).

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

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
44.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1840 vs 41
Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 217 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	1840 vs 41
PassMark - G2D Mark	217 vs 170

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1840

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

217

170

Name	NVIDIA GeForce MX230	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark	1840	41
PassMark - G2D Mark	217	170
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	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	1005	1002
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