NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M vs AMD Radeon R9 M395X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

AMD Radeon R9 M395X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon R9 M395X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X +2693%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

VS

Radeon R9 M395X

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 200M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

8.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

105.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

23W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT216

GPU Name

Amethyst

N10P-GE-A2

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.486 billion

Transistors

5 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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