NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 8GB VRAM Radeon E9550 MXM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1531MHz vs 1266MHz)

Lower TDP (10W vs 95W)

AMD Radeon E9550 MXM 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon E9550 MXM +644%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Radeon E9550 MXM

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Sep 2016

GeForce MX

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

256

Shading Units

2304

16

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Ellesmere

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

95W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

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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