NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 840A

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 NVIDIA GeForce 840A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM GeForce 840A 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 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1531MHz vs 1124MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

Lower TDP (10W vs 33W)

NVIDIA GeForce 840A 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce 840A +10%

0.863 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce 840A

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 800A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

1029 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

256

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.992 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.98 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

863.2 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

26.98 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GM108

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

74 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

10W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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