NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1140MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +4304%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 200M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1064 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

-

105.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

GM204

N10P-GE-A2

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.2

CUDA

5.2

4.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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