NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1531MHz vs 1127MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +341%

3.462 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Oct 2014

GeForce MX

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

96

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

72.13 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 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-GX-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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