AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

Lower TDP (10W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +110%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Feb 2019

Solar System

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1519 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

256

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GP108

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

10W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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