NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 555M 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 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

112 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (10W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 555M

0.389 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230 +101%

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 555M

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

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

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

2

144

Shading Units

256

24

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.700 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

16.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

388.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

32.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

GP108

N12E-GE2-A1

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

238 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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