AMD Radeon R9 M385 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M385 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 M385 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M385 +128%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M385

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GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

May 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

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

256

56

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

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Strato

GPU Name

GP108

Strato 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

Unknown

TDP

10W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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