NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1531MHz vs 1124MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Lower TDP (10W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition +83%

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

993 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GM107

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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