NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

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NVIDIA GeForce 945A

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 945A and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 945A 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1531MHz vs 1189MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 40.10GB/s)

Lower TDP (10W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 945A +16%

0.913 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce 945A

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 900A

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

1189 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

40.10GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

384

Shading Units

256

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.512 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

28.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

913.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

28.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

GP108

-

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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