NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9173 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1531MHz vs 1219MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (10W vs 35W)

AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon E9173 PCIe +59%

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Radeon E9173 PCIe

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce MX

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

1124 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

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

19.50 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Lexa

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

E9170

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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