NVIDIA GeForce MX230 vs AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1531MHz vs 1077MHz)

Lower TDP (10W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 Mobile +533%

4.963 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

VS

Radeon RX 480 Mobile

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce MX

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1519 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1077 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

2

SM Count

-

256

Shading Units

2304

16

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

34.46 GPixel/s

24.50 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.1 GTexel/s

12.25 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.963 TFLOPS

783.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.963 TFLOPS

24.50 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

310.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

10W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Ellesmere

N17S-G0-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XT

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

232 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

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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