NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 160M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (10W vs 60W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +308%

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 160M

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce GTS 160M

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 100M

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

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

8

-

Compute Units

-

256

Shading Units

64

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

G94

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GS1

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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