Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs GeForce MX230
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1531MHz
Lower TDP (10W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
+374%
3723
GeForce MX230
784
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Feb 2019
Crystal System
Generation
GeForce MX
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1519 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1531 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
48.06GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
2048
Shading Units
256
128
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
24.50 GPixel/s
116.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
24.50 GTexel/s
3.723 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.25 GFLOPS
3.723 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
783.9 GFLOPS
232.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
24.50 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
10W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Amethyst
GPU Name
GP108
Amethyst XT
GPU Variant
N17S-G0-A1
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
5 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
366 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.3
Shader Model
6.4
