NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520MX and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

208 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (10W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 520MX

0.173 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230 +353%

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520MX

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

May 2011

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 500M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1519 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

1

SM Count

2

48

Shading Units

256

8

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

7.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

172.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

14.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

GP108

N12P-GVR-B-A1

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.1

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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