AMD Radeon R9 M395X vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M395X

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X 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 M395X 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

Lower TDP (10W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M395X +277%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M395X

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Feb 2019

Crystal 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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

2048

Shading Units

256

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GP108

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

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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