AMD Radeon 530X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

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AMD Radeon 530X Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 530X Mobile and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 230M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 530X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1024MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (36.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

336 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 530X Mobile +641%

0.786 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230M

0.106 TFLOPS

Radeon 530X Mobile

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GeForce GT 230M

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jun 2009

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

-

1024 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

36.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

48

24

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

8.192 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

24.58 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

786.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

786.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

105.6 GFLOPS

49.15 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 24

GPU Name

GT216

Polaris 24 XT (216-0867030)

GPU Variant

N10P-GE-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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