NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon E8950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 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 53% (1531MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (10W vs 95W)

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +422%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce MX

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

95W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Amethyst

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

E8950

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

5 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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