NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3430 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

216 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (10W vs 12W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +2077%

0.784 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3430

0.036 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

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Mobility Radeon HD 3430

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce MX

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

-

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

256

Shading Units

40

16

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.800 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.800 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

36.00 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

M82

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

M82-SE

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

12W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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