NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1531MHz vs 1140MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +495%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

256

128

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP108

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

10W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.4

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