NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 480M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

Lower TDP (10W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +31%

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480M

0.598 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce GTX 480M

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

May 2010

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

-

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

11

256

Shading Units

352

16

TMUs

44

16

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.350 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.70 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

598.4 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GF100

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

N11E-GTX-A3

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

2.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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