NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon R9 M385X

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 AMD Radeon R9 M385X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M385X 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 39% (1531MHz vs 1100MHz)

AMD Radeon R9 M385X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M385X +151%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Radeon R9 M385X

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

1000 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

256

Shading Units

896

16

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Strato

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Strato XT

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

Board Design

10W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

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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