NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1085MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

592 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960A +1210%

1.389 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A

VS

GeForce GT 230M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce 900A

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1029 MHz

Base Clock

-

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

640

Shading Units

48

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

105.6 GFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GT216

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N10P-GE-A2

Maxwell

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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