AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1531MHz vs 1000MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X +128%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Feb 2019

Gem System

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1519 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

896

Shading Units

256

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

10W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GP108

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

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

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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