NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition 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 7 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (10W vs 45W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.26GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +13%

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jul 2012

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

-

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1254 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

80.26GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.80 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

28.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GK107

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

N13P-GT-W-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

6.1

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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