NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 30% (1531MHz vs 1176MHz)

Lower TDP (10W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M +91%

1.505 TFLOPS

OctaneBench

GeForce MX230

13

GeForce GTX 960M +146%

32

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce GTX 960M

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

1097 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

256

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GM107

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

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

Board Design

10W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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