NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon HD 7490M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

AMD Radeon HD 7490M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7490M 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 1 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 30.40GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7490M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (9W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +206%

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7490M

0.256 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Radeon HD 7490M

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce MX

Generation

London

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

950 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

30.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

160

16

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

256.0 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

10W

TDP

9W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Seymour

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX (216-0810005)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

67 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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285M

2

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

3

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition

4

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

5

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

6

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile

7

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon HD 7590M

8

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

9

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT

10

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon E9172 MXM

Related News

1

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

2

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

3

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

4

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

5

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

6

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

7

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

8

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

9

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

10

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim