NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 445M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 40.00GB/s)

112 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (10W vs 35W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +139%

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 445M

0.328 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce GT 445M

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

-

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

625 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

40.00GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

3

-

Compute Units

-

256

Shading Units

144

16

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.420 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.68 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

328.3 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

27.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GF106

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

N11E-GE-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

35W

-

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

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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