NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

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NVIDIA GeForce 945A

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 945A and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 945A 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1189MHz vs 850MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (40.10GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 945A +67%

0.913 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce 945A

VS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2014

GeForce 900A

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1189 MHz

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

40.10GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

384

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

20

8

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.512 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

28.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

913.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

28.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Sun

-

GPU Variant

Sun LE

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

0.69 billion

Unknown

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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