NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 640M LE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (10W vs 32W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (50.24GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +171%

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640M LE

0.289 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce GT 640M LE

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

May 2012

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 600M

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

785 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

50.24GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

2

256

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.012 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.05 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

289.0 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.08 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

32W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GF108

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

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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