NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD FirePro W5170M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

AMD FirePro W5170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1531MHz vs 925MHz)

AMD FirePro W5170M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

FirePro W5170M +51%

1.184 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

FirePro W5170M

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Aug 2014

GeForce MX

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.80 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.00 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1184 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Tropo

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Tropo XT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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