NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

AMD Radeon HD 6990M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

Lower TDP (10W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 6990M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M +104%

1.602 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Radeon HD 6990M

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce MX

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

-

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

1120

16

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.88 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

40.04 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.602 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

10W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XTX (216-0811030)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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