NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon R9 M395X

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NVIDIA GeForce MX230 AMD Radeon R9 M395X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X 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 Clock1531MHz

Lower TDP (10W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon R9 M395X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X +277%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Radeon R9 M395X

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce MX

Generation

Crystal System

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

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

256

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Amethyst

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 3.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

5 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

10W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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