NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 720M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 102% (1531MHz vs 758MHz)

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

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (10W vs 33W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +169%

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 720M

0.291 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce GT 720M

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

719 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

758 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

192

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.032 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.13 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

291.1 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.13 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GK208

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

GT 720M

Pascal

Architecture

Kepler 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

1.02 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

87 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

3.5

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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