NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M 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 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1531MHz vs 1150MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 's Advantages

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

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 965M +200%

2.355 TFLOPS

OctaneBench

GeForce MX230

13

GeForce GTX 965M +146%

32

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce GTX 965M

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jan 2016

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

935 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1150 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.80 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

73.60 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.355 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

73.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GM206S

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GR-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

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

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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