NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (1670MHz vs 1531MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (10W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +445%

4.275 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1404 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

1670 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

2

1280

Shading Units

256

80

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

80.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

133.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

66.80 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

4.275 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

133.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GP108

N17E-G1-A1

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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