NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon R5 M445
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 M445 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1531MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)
AMD Radeon R5 M445 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
+11%
0.784 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 M445
0.706 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Jan 2016
GeForce MX
Generation
Gem System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
-
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
32.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
2
SM Count
-
256
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.360 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
22.08 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
706.6 GFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
10W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Meso
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
Meso XT
(216-0864018)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 3.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
1.55 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
125 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.5
