NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M 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 860M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1531MHz vs 1085MHz)

Lower TDP (10W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 860M +77%

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

256

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GP108

N15P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

10W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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