NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

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

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1531MHz vs 1127MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980M +341%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1038 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

1536

Shading Units

256

96

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

72.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

108.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

3.462 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

108.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

10W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GP108

N16E-GX-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

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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