NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon HD 8670M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 AMD Radeon HD 8670M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8670M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 57% (1531MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8670M 's Advantages

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230 +25%

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8670M

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Radeon HD 8670M

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce MX

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

256

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.800 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.50 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

39.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Sun

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Sun S3 XT (216-0841009)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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