AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

VS

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X Mobile and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1531MHz vs 1287MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (10W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X Mobile +110%

1.647 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Feb 2019

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

640

Shading Units

256

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

51.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

1.647 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

1.647 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

103.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

GP108

Polaris 23 MXT

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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