NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

240 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (10W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +2603%

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GS

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce 8600M GS

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

-

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

1

256

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

28.80 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

10W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

G86

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

G86-770-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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