NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

Lower TDP (10W vs 45W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M +30%

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce MX

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

-

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

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

12.80 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Heathrow

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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