GeForce MX230 vs GeForce 305M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 305M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce MX230 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1531MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)
240 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (10W vs 14W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce MX230
+2018%
784
GeForce 305M
37
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Jan 2010
GeForce MX
Generation
GeForce 300M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1519 MHz
Base Clock
-
1531 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
11.20GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
2
256
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
Theoretical Performance
24.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.100 GPixel/s
24.50 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.200 GTexel/s
12.25 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
783.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
36.80 GFLOPS
24.50 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
10W
TDP
14W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GT218
N17S-G0-A1
GPU Variant
N11M-LP1
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
1.2
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
