NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230

AMD Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition 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 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 50% (1531MHz vs 1021MHz)

AMD Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (100.4GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition +100%

1.568 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Radeon R9 M380 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce MX

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1021 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1568 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

100.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

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

16.34 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.01 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.568 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

98.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Strato

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Strato PRO

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

160 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

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