NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 Mac Edition. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GT216GPU NameG84
Tesla 2.0ArchitectureTesla
TSMCFoundryTSMC
40 nmProcess Size80 nm
486 millionTransistors289 million
100 mm²Die Size169 mm²

Graphics Card

Jun 15th, 2009Release DateSep 27th, 2008
GeForce 200MFamilyQuadro FX
(x700)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
PCIe 2.0 x16Bus InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

1024 MBMemory Size512 MB
GDDR3Memory TypeGDDR3
128 bitMemory Bus128 bit
25.60 GB/sBandwidth20.80 GB/s

Performance

4.000 GPixel/sPixel fillrate4.160 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/sTexture fillrate8.320 GTexel/s
105.6 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance66.56 GFLOPS

Clock Speeds

800 MHz
1600 Mbps effective
Memory Clock650 MHz
1300 Mbps effective
500 MHzGPU Clock520 MHz

Render Config

48Shading Units32
16TMUs16
8ROPs8
64 KBL2 Cache32 KB
6SM Count4

Board Design

23 WThermal design power (TDP)42 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI
1x S-Video

API support

11.1 (10_1)DirectX11.1 (10_0)
3.3OpenGL3.3
1.1OpenCL1.1
N/AVulkanN/A
4.1Shader Model4.0
1.2CUDA1.1