NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 740A 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 6 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Lower TDP (10W vs 33W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 740A 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +4%

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 740A

0.753 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce GT 740A

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Aug 2013

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

-

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

384

16

TMUs

32

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

7.840 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.36 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

752.6 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

31.36 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 740M

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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