NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (10W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1645MHz vs 1531MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile +759%

6.738 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

1442 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1645 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

256

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

105.3 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

210.6 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

105.3 GFLOPS

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.738 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

210.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GP104

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

N17E-G2-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

120W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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