Radeon RX Vega XL vs GeForce GT 230M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1214not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.67no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGT216Vega 10
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 June 2009 (15 years ago)8 August 2017 (7 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores483584
Core clock speed500 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1630 MHz
Number of transistors486 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate8.000365.1
Floating-point processing power0.1056 TFLOPSno data
Gigaflops158no data
ROPs864
TMUs16224

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3HBM2
Maximum RAM amountUp to 1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit2048 Bit
Memory clock speedUp to 600 (DDR2), Up to 800 (GDDR3), Up to 1066 (GDDR3) MHz1890 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 (DDR2), 25 (DDR3)483.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsDual Link DVIVGADisplayPortHDMISingle Link DVI1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI++
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
Audio input for HDMIHDAno data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12.0
Shader Model4.15.0
OpenGL2.14.5
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A-
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 June 2009 8 August 2017
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 225 Watt

GT 230M has 878.3% lower power consumption.

RX Vega XL, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 230M and Radeon RX Vega XL. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 230M is a notebook card while Radeon RX Vega XL is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M
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