NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 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 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1531MHz vs 1140MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +495%

4.669 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Sep 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

1064 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GM204

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

398 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 (6.4)

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