NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250M 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 8 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (10W vs 28W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M 's Advantages

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +226%

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250M

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce GTS 250M

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jun 2009

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 200M

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

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

12

256

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

10W

TDP

28W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GT215

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GE-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.2

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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