NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 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 1 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (89.60GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 +12%

0.88 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce MX

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

-

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

89.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.800 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.00 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

880.0 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

176.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

M98

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

M98 XT L2 (216-0732023)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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